by Nina Berberova · ACTES SUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868691101
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«Le laquais et la putain» is the novel by Nina Berberova, published by Actes Sud in paperback (80 pages, in French).
A former member of the Russian Imperial Guard serves caviar and chambertin in a restaurant on the Seine. There he crosses paths with Tania, an ambitious and irresolute young woman from Petersburg, who dreams of finding happiness in marriage and life in Paris. From Irkutsk, Japan and Shanghai, her story moves towards misery and death.
Originally written in Russian in 1937 under the title «Лакей и девка», this French edition from Actes Sud appeared in 1993.
A suitable read for fans of twentieth-century Russian literature and of the short novel in French.
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.
