Teffi : a life of letters and of laughter / Edythe Haber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haber, Edythe C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tėffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), 1872-1952.

Tėffi, N. A.

Authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Russian.

Women authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2019.

Summary:

"Teffi was one of twentieth century Russia's most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people-- from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin-- and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her. She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of 'War and Peace' and Rasputin tried (and utterly failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian émigré community of Paris, where she continued writing, and enjoying comparable fame, until her death in 1952. Teffi's best stories effortlessly shift from light humor and satire to pathos and even tragedy-- ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow émigrés suffered in exile."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Plates

Notes on the Text

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. "An Interesting Bunch": Family Background and Early Years

2. Literary Beginnings, 1898-1908

3. Ascent, 1908-15

4. Feasts and Plagues, 1910-16

5. A Farewell to Russia, Past and Future, 1915-19

6. Migration, 1919-24

7. Russia Abroad, 1924-31

8. A Slippery Slope, 1931-6

9. Tenderness and Angst, 1936-8

10. Zigzags in Life and Art, 1938-9

11. War and Its Aftermath, 1939-46

12. Struggle and Perseverance, 1946-51

13. Last Works, Last Days, 1952 Epilogue: Life after Teffi

Notes Select

Bibliography and Further Reading in English

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.

ISBN:

9781788316095

1788316096

9781786734396

1786734397

OCLC:

1083096808