Ariane, A Russian Girl
$28.48
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2023
Summary
In this long-overdue translation of the novel that inspired the 1957 Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper film Love in the Afternoon, a young woman finds independence and love with an older man in pre-revolutionary Moscow—a relationship depicted with a complexity and sexual frankness that feels remarkably ahead of its time.
“Men speak freely of the women they’ve had, and we’re condemned to silence. Why? Aren’t we as free as you? Don’t we, like you, have the right to take pleasure w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681377100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681377101 |
| Author: | Claude Anet, Mitchell Abidor |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 151mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“The beauty of literary love is that one can take it as a further exploration of one’s consciousness and sexuality…Ariane feeds that need, and this page-turner of a small novel can be a wonderful love in the afternoon.” —Tosh Berman
“Ariane is a rich study of the workings of passion and love’s foundational misunderstandings, which lead us to love fantasies instead of human beings. It’s also an investigation into the durability of feeling. To make it last, don’t we have to hide ourselves and play a part?” —Hervé Bel, ActuaLitté
Claude Anet
Jean Schopfer (1868-1931), who wrote under the pseudonym Claude Anet, was born in Switzerland in 1868 and studied in France at the Sorbonne and École du Louvre. A competitive tennis player, Schopfer wrote several novels, plays, biographies, and travel books, and covered the Russian Revolution as a journalist.
Mitchell Abidor is a Brooklyn-based translator and regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His latest book is his translation, with Richard Greeman, of Victor Serge’s Notebooks 1936-1947, which is published as an NYRB Classic.
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