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Title:Summer in Baden-Baden
Author:Leonid Tsypkin
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 246 pages
Published:September 17th 2003 by New Directions (first published 1981)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature
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Summer in Baden-Baden Paperback | Pages: 246 pages
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Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving."


A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator—Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M. Coetzee's The Master of St. Petersburg, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right." Nothing is invented, everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which in turn resonates with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay (which appeared in The New Yorker), Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that Summer in Baden-Baden has survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.

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Original Title: Лето в Бадене
ISBN: 0811215482 (ISBN13: 9780811215480)
Edition Language: English

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Once or twice in our lives, we are fortunate enough to stumble upon a hidden masterpiece, a book so entrancing that its obscurity strikes one not so much as an act of cultural oversight but as a natural disaster, leaving in its wake throngs of readers deprived of the book's great and terrible beauty. Luckily, in recent years the cult of "Summer in Baden-Baden" has grown considerably, with the book finding its way here, as it did in its native Soviet Russia, from friend to awestruck friend,

Beautiful. Wondrous.

This was a simulatneously excellent and awful book, so I'm going to give it 3 stars.First the good, so you can understand the bad. This book was written by a doctor in 1980 Soviet Union, and snuck out to be published abroad. the author was not a known writer, and because of his particular circumstances, he did not have access to any writings of fiction, biography etc. Because of this, he wrote a book which is completely unique! It's a combination of his musings as he reads a book about

Leonid Tsypkin strongly felt what now appears to be a universal human need: to be a fan of someone or something. But he was cursed by fate. He lived in a place and at a time when there was no one to worship but God yet God was itself banned as a matter of state policy and there were no rock stars, actors, great athletes, football teams or anything one could substitute for God. Tsypkin was born in 1926 in Minsk. His parents were Russian jews. He was a young boy when the Stalinist purges, the



Nice story, mostly about the last 15 years in the life of Russian author Dostojewski. It evokes the journey the writer made with his second wife to the German spa Baden-Baden, around 1867, and in addition also the story of his last days and dead in 1881. The whole character of Dostojewski is presented: his gambling addiction, his paranoïd inferiority complex, his epilepsy, his disdain for germans en jews, etc. The focus is on his very variable relation with his wife Anna. This story is

This extraordinary novel, first published in 1981, one week before the author's sudden death, was recently brought to the attention of the reading public by critic Susan Sontag just before her death.The novel dramatizes Fyodor and Anna Dostoyevsky's tempestuous relationship, focusing on a summer trip the couple took to Baden-Baden in 1867. If it were that simple, the novel would still be great. What makes this book a "must read" is that the story of Anna and Fyodor is neatly folded inside an