by Nina Berberova · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868693242
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«La Résurrection de Mozart» is a short story by Nina Berberova, published by Actes Sud in paperback (46 pages, in French).
In the Paris awaiting the arrival of the Germans, some Russian émigrés give themselves over to nostalgia and fantasize about resurrecting someone; they all agree on Mozart. From that desire, the story links memory, identity, and art's capacity to sustain life in times of uncertainty.
Translated from the Russian by Luba Jurgenson and originally published in 1949 as «Воскресение Моцарта».
A brief work for those interested in Russian exile narrative and stories with a historical backdrop.
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.
