by Nina Berberova · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868695697
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«L'Affaire Kravtchenko» is Nina Berberova's historical essay, published by Actes Sud in paperback (288 pages, in French).
It reconstructs the defamation trial that Víctor Kravchenko brought in 1949 against Les Lettres françaises. The proceedings become a confrontation with the Soviet regime: the existence of concentration camps in the USSR is debated. Berberova, in the press gallery, portrays the witnesses, including the deportee Margarete Buber-Neumann.
Translated from Russian by Irène and André Markowicz. Part of Actes Sud's 'Mémoires, journaux, témoignages' collection.
For readers interested in Soviet history, political trials and testimonial journalism.
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.
