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A lost masterpiece and one of the major achievements of Russian literature in the second half of the 20th century. 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,... read more
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First Sentence edit
I was on a train, travelling by day, but it was winter-time--late December, the very depths--and to add to it the rain was heading north--to Leningrad--so it was quickly darkening on the other side of the windows--bright lights of Moscow stations flashing into view and vanishing again behind me like the scattering of some invisible hand--each snow-veiled suburban platform with its fleeting row of lamps melting into one fiery ribbon--the dull drone of a station rushing past, as if the train were roaring over a bridge--the sound muffled by the double-glazed windows with frames not quite hermetically sealed into fogged-up, half-frozen panes of glass--pierced even so by the station-lights forcefully etching their line of fire--and beyond, the sense of boundless snowy wastes--and the violent sway of the carriage from side to side--pitching and rolling--especially in the end corridor...
Series & Lists edit
This is book 285 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by July's People, and followed by Broken April.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Leonid Tsypkin (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Roger Keys (Translator)
- Angela Keys (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Russian
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Country: Russia
Publication Date: 1981
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Page Count: 216
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Russia
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 216
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- Dewey: 860
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Russian
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
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