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A piece of life

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A collection of emigrant prose by Nadezhda Taffy. The book includes stories and memoirs about contemporaries who inhabited Russian Paris, as well as memoirs of writer Boris Panteleimonov about Taffy herself. The collection opens with a foreword by Elena Trubilova and Dmitry Nikolaev, well-known specialists in the history of Russian literature of the twentieth century, who also wrote detailed commentaries. Some of the texts have been unfamiliar to modern Russian readers until now. Taffy's emigrant prose, often called "the queen of Russian humor," is written in a different tone than the texts created at the very beginning of the twentieth century. She, who welcomed the February Revolution of 1905, did not accept the consequences of the October Revolution. Alienated by aggression, Taffy left her homeland, but emigration forever changed the mood of her witty, sometimes caustic, feuilletons and essays. Taffy began to write more lyrical, sadder, but no less talented and poetic. She was as lost as her fellows in misfortune, but her observant mind and gift for skillful storytelling helped her melt her boredom into what she did best: telling stories, illuminating what others preferred to turn a blind eye to.
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