by Nina Berberova · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782868696120
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«Roquenval» is the novel by Nina Berberova, published by Actes Sud in paperback format (86 pages, in French).
The narrator visits the castle of Roquenval and looks into the memory of old Russia; his recollections mingle with those of an elderly woman who still lives there, amid remnants of former splendour. The novel portrays the Russian exiles of the first emigration and heirs who can no longer maintain the property.
The novel was originally written in Russian and translated into French by Luba Jurgenson; the Actes Sud edition was published in 1991.
For readers interested in Russian literature who enjoy short novels about memory, exile and the passage of time.
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.
