by Nina Berberova · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868690487
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«L'Accompagnatrice» is the novel by Nina Berberova, published by Actes Sud in paperback (112 pages, in French).
The story centers on the relationship between a soprano from St Petersburg high society and Sonetchka, her humble, poor accompanist. After the October Revolution, both go into exile and end up settling in Paris, where their bond drifts toward a silent paroxysm of love and hate, shot through with class differences and the spell of music.
Novel originally published in Russian in 1935 under the title «Аккомпаниаторша», translated into French by Lydia Chweitzer. Included in the Romans, nouvelles, récits collection from Actes Sud.
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.
