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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

Summer in Baden-Baden

Leonid Tsypkin

Paperback | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 858 Users | 117 Reviews

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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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Not an easy read, perhaps owing to out of its 146 pages it has only 172 sentences, but once you get going, it works. Kind of a stream of consciousness narrative from which you can place yourself into the events and feelings as they are occurring. Like being caught in someone's feverish mind. Someone who is vacationing in Baden-Baden, with financial humiliations, a gambling addiction, a rocky marriage, explosive temper, and a creative mind. Told from multiple viewpoints. Disclaimer - I had to

As many of you who follow me on Goodreads probably know by now, Dostoyevsky is my favorite author, and I am incredibly passionate about reading and analyzing his works. Thus, I am often wary about fictitious portrayals of him (for an excellent interpretation, I strongly recommend watching the Russian TV series, "Достоевский: Жизнь, Полная Страстей"-- "Dostoyevsky: A Life Full of Passion"). I had recently read J.M. Coetzee's "The Master of Petersburg", and found it overall disappointing and

Susan Sontag writes:The literature of the second half of the twentieth century is a much traversed field, and it seems unlikely that there are still masterpieces in major, intently patrolled languages waiting to be discovered.Intently patrolled I like that! At a time when most publishers wont accept unsolicited manuscripts, let alone pay them proper attention when they do! When even agents dont accept them! Its like some Kafkaesque doorkeeper fable! Maybe in the seventies it was different,



This book is amazing! The essay by Susan Sontag that tells the impossible tale of how this book got published is inspiring to say the least. The short and concise novel tells two stories: one about Dostoevsky and his suffering and the other from the point of view of the author and why he is fascinated with Dostoevsky. Seamlessly!!! It touched such a deep place in me that I had dreams. A must read.

So glad I read this slim, intense, layered, brilliant, dense, melancholy book. I didn't expect it to be a love story!

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