by Nina Berberova · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845908248
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«Il lacché e la puttana» is the novel by Nina Berberova, published by Adelphi in 1991 in paperback (in Italian).
Tanja, the «puttana», travels from Petersburg to Japan, China and Paris; opposite her, the «lacché», a former tsarist cavalry officer, serves caviar as a waiter in a restaurant. The backdrop is the Paris of the White Russians, with its despair and degradation, and the sinister denouement holds one last surprise.
The work first appeared in Russian in 1937 in «Sovremennye Zapiski», as «Лакей и девка». This Italian edition, translated by Donatella Sant'Elia, is part of Piccola Biblioteca 269.
For readers interested in Russian exile literature and in Nina Berberova's short fiction.
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent was considered by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit to be the best translation before 2000.
