by Nina Nikolaevna Berberova · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742700455
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«Où il n'est pas question d'amour et autres récits» is Nina Berberova's collection of short stories in paperback from Actes Sud (224 pages, French).
These stories, translated from Russian, were first published in France. They portray the exiled Russian community that had organized around the Renault factories in Billancourt. With a sharp eye and sober narration, Berberova recreates the precariousness and human bonds of characters shaken by crisis, with a precision critics have compared to Chekhov or Turgenev.
Translation from Russian by Alexandra Pletnioff-Boutin. The stories, previously only in Russian periodicals, were separated from the Chroniques de Billancourt to mark their distinct theme.
For readers of Russian narrative and literary fiction, particularly those already familiar with Berberova's Chroniques de Billancourt.
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.
