by Nina Nikolaevna Berberova · ACTES SUD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782868694133
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«Le Mal Noir» is Nina Berberova's novel, published by Actes Sud in paperback (112 pages, in French).
A Russian émigré, marked by the death of his companion in a bombing, begins the path of exile towards the United States with a stopover in Paris. The novel explores the «mal noir», a Slavic sadness tinged with fatalism, and the protagonist's progressive detachment from the people and places he leaves behind.
Translated from the Russian by Luba Jurgenson. It was published in French in 1989 in the «Romans, nouvelles et récits» collection by Actes Sud.
For readers interested in Russian exile literature and in Nina Berberova's narrative work.
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.
