LEADER 02497nam 2200361 n 450 001 9910476886603321 005 20230511212950.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000567091 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000567091 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000567091 100 $a20230511d2021 uu 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"My Dear, Close and Distant Friend" $eNina Berberova's Letters to Sergej Rottenberg (1947-1975) /$fMagnus Ljunggren 210 1$aGothenburg :$cKriterium,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 296 pages) 311 $a91-7963-061-8 330 $aNina Berberova (1901-1993) almost appears to have lived several lives. First, she was a young writer in the revolutionary Russia. Then she witnessed the hectic 1920s in Berlin and achieved her literary breakthrough in interwar Paris with psychologically finely-honed novels and short stories set in the Russian e?migre? community. Finally, she went on in the latter half of the century to a career as a Slavist in the United States. She had her eyes on Russia the whole time. As an academic she studied the cracks in the ideological wall and seems early on to have foreseen her return to her homeland. At last, as she approached the age of ninety, she had vanquished the Soviet Union and could go back in triumph in the "revolutionary" year of 1989. In addition to everything else Berberova was an avid letter writer who maintained a great many correspondences. For nearly thirty years she was friends with her Russian - and Petersburgian -countryman Sergej Rittenberg (1899-1975) in Stockholm, to whom she sent more than 150 letters and postcards between 1947 and 1975. A reflection of her thoughts and reading interests, they also provide a glimpse into the genesis of her huge memoir The Italics Are Mine (Kursiv moj). This volume presents Berberova's letters with an introduction and extensive commentaries by Professor Magnus Ljunggren. 517 $a“MY DEAR, CLOSE AND DISTANT FRIEND” 517 $a?MY DEAR, CLOSE AND DISTANT FRIEND? 606 $aCorrespondence analysis (Statistics) 615 0$aCorrespondence analysis (Statistics) 676 $a519.537 700 $aLjunggren$b Magnus$0700119 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476886603321 996 $a"My Dear, Close and Distant Friend"$93363293 997 $aUNINA