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FREE SUMMER IN BADEN-BADEN: A NOVEL PDF Leonid G. Tsypkin,Roger Keys,Angela Keys,Susan Sontag | 176 pages | 23 Jan 2004 | New Directions Publishing Corporation | 9780811215480 | English | New York, United States Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel (Hardcover) | Vroman's Bookstore Petersburg in Within four weeks he had dictated his novel The Gambler to her and two weeks later he asked her to be his wife. In April the Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel went on a journey that lasted more than four years and took them to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. While in Baden-Baden, Dostoyevsky Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel himself on the verge of bankruptcy, possessed by the same mania as the hero of The Gambler. Summer in Baden-Baden is a complex, artful, highly personal novel that is written as if by a contemporary of Dostoyevsky. Author Leonid Tsypkin paints a portrait of a man plagued by epilepsy and tortured by ferocious passions, such as his physical obsession with Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel, his gambling, and his anti-Semitism. Readers also are shown Dostoyevsky's traumatic relations with his literary contemporaries. Throughout Summer in Baden-Baden, there is a sense of his desperate struggle to reconcile his ambition with the sentence of humility. About the Author Leonid Tsypkin died in Moscow on his 56th birthday in the spring of A pathologist by profession, he upholds the long tradition of doctors-turned-writers. Summer in Baden-Baden marks the culmination of a lifelong avocation. The manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union and first published in Russian on March 13th, It is, in more ways than one, a chronicle of fevered genius. ISBN Vikt gram. Utgiven Antal sidor [Dostoyevsky, Summer in Baden-Baden – From the Life of Dostoyevsky. - West Coast Rare Books Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin. Roger Keys Translator. Angela Keys Translator. Susan Sontag Contributor. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now. And it is also mid-April 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. Coetzee's The Master of St. Petersburga Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything "right. Dostoyevsky's reckless Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel 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 YorkerSusan 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. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 17th by New Directions first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Summer in Baden-Badenplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Summer in Baden-Baden. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Summer in Baden- Baden. May 17, Steve rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction. Tsypkin, a medical researcher by day, pursued another, more passionate vocation in the evenings. He came back home Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel six p. Before going to bed, at ten p. He usually spent his weekends writing as well; for a change he would work at the Lenin Library, gathering materials for his book on Dostoyevsky. My father craved every opportunity to write, but writing was difficult, painful. He Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel over every word, and endlessly corrected his hand-written manuscripts. And in that Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel his writings remained. He did not send his manuscripts to publishers, and did not want to circulate his prose in samizdat because he was afraid of problems Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel the KGB and of losing his job. Tsypkin, who died inwould not live to see Summer in Baden-Baden published. His writing life was clandestine, and his one attempt to obtain an exit visa out of the Soviet Union failed due to the tensions between East and West over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel him is his young wife, Anna Gregoryevna, Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel stenographer who met and worked with Dostoyevsky while the author was writing Crime and Punishment. Yet, going back to their first meeting in a St. The trauma of a beating in Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel will haunt him the rest of his life, adding further revolutions to the manic engine of the writer, sometimes reducing him to impotence, or even triggering an epileptic fit. Parallel to Dostoyevsky's story is that of the unnamed narrator. Though the details are fewer, we know the narrator is Jewish and lives in the modern day Soviet Union--and that he admires Dostoyevsky. Beyond that, we know little more. Through the difficult summer ofAnna sees Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel at his worst, but she indulges him and gives him space and money, along with her own jewelry to pawn, which he quickly blows at the gambling tables again and again. Without her, would the great novels to come even have been written? The reader sees and appreciates fully the love Anna bears for her husband. In one long, beautiful passage, Tsypkin poignantly paints the last scene of a literary marriage. But this is intentional. View all 4 comments. Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel on the lyrical at times, which is amazing considering it was translated from the Russian. Jul 25, Liel rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Everyone. 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, passe 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 Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel 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, passed around semizdat-style. Any attempt at definition is bound to fail, as Leonid Tsypkin -- a haunted and supremely talented writer who has never seen this, his only work, published in his lifetime -- has invented a brand new hybrid genre, bringing together literary criticism, biography, novellas and travelogues. For good measure, however, the plot is as follows: The narrator, Tsypkin himself, is riding the train form Moscow to St. Petersburg in the s or s. He is reading a book, Anna Dostoyevsky's account of her travels with her husband in the yearwhen the two, then newlyweds, left Russia for a summer in the German spa town of Baden Baden. Dual accounts emerge: On the one hand is the great author, his fame far from fully recognized, his finances in disarray, his sexuality ill at ease and his psyche ravaged by a growing addiction to gambling. He runs around Baden Baden, a town awash in splendor, fuming at the sight of his fellow compatriots, Goncharov and Turgenev, both adored by the critics and in possession of considerable fortunes. One moment he is ecstatic, bursting into casinos with crystal chandeliers and plush carpeting in the hope of winning instantaneous wealth. The other he crawls back to his modest apartment, paralyzed with guilt, begging his young wife's forgiveness. Tsypkin has concocted here not so much a biography as a fantasy, however well-grounded in fact, and he enriches his text with subtle allusions to Dostoyevsky's work, small nuggets that are bound to delight fans of the great author. But the book is as much Tsypkin's story as it is Dostoyevsky's; on a parallel track to Fyodor and Anna's woes, Tsypkin recounts his own journey, one that ends with a pilgrimage to the author's house in St. This, I believe, is Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel truly masterful part of the book, as Tsypkin weaves together political commentary, lamenting the crumbling Soviet Union, with literary criticism, pondering the shortcomings of his idol, an unhappy, anti-Semitic wretch of a man who nonetheless transcended the barriers posed by his wounded soul to become one of humanity's sharpest observers.

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