by Nina Berberova · J'ai Lu · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782277233626
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«L'Accompagnatrice» is the novel by Nina Berberova, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (179 pages, in French).
The pianist Sonetchka accompanies the singer Maria Nikolaevna, a beautiful and admired woman. From the piano, in the shadow of another's success, Sonetchka nurtures a mix of envy and fascination toward the artist, while pre-revolutionary Russia changes around her. A novel that dissects pettiness, humiliation, and the longing for recognition.
For readers of psychological fiction interested in stories of envy and social class with a revolutionary backdrop.
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.
