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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Poignant tale of a melancholy Russian woman pianist who lives in the shadow of the passionate diva who employs her. More a long short story than a novel, "The Accompanist" is set in chaotic Russia following the 1917 revolution, and in a gray and wintry interwar Paris. "The Accompanist" was originally written in Russian by emigré Nina Berberova (1901-1993) in 1936. The text was neglected for many years, then was translated and published first in French, then English, in the late 1980s. no reviews | add a review
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A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl's jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions,The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a literary phenomenon in Europe where it was first published. A spellbinding, short novel set in post-revolutionary RussiaThe Accompanist portrays with extraordinary sensitivity the entangled relationships of three intriguing characters. Sonechka is a talented but shy young pianist hired by a beautiful soprano (Maria Nikolaevna) and her devoted, bourgeois husband. Maria is everything Sonechka is notglamorous and flamboyant. Her voice brings with it "something immortal and indisputable, something which gives reality to the human being's dream of having wings." Doomed to live in her mentor's shadow, the young girl secretly schemes to expose the singer's infidelities. But as she awaits her chance, the diva's husband takes matters into his own hands, bringing events to a surprising resolution. This intense and beautiful little novel was published in America almost fifty years after it was written; sadly out of print for a number of years, it is a wonderfully compelling and crucial addition to Nina Berberova's growing number of published fictional works. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.734Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Le premesse sono classiche: una ragazza di umilissime origini non propriamente bella ma musicalmente dotata, diventa l'accompagnatrice col pianoforte di una bellissima e famosa cantante. Presto in lei si genererà un ambiguo sentimento di invidia e di ammirazione che non sarà in grado di gestire anche per via dei conflitti irrisolti con la madre e del suo risentimento verso il genere umano.
L'analisi psicologica del personaggio di Sonečka non mi è dispiaciuta, quello che ho trovato poco originale è la storia e il finale un po' scontato che avrei preferito venisse sviluppato meglio.
Un libro veloce che conferma le mie difficoltà con la scrittura russa...
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