{"product_id":"summer-in-baden-baden","title":"Summer in Baden-Baden","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/h1\u003eLeonid Tsypkin\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 1 2003\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780811215480\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0811215482\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/em\u003e was acclaimed by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e as \"a short poetic masterpiece\" and by Donald Fanger in \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e as \"gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A complex, highly original novel, \u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Master of St. Petersburg\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e), Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that \u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390953029677,"sku":"19846","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_a5f44da2-eb03-44d0-a586-166783b16855.jpg?v=1787349783","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/summer-in-baden-baden","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}