{"product_id":"summer-in-baden-baden-leonid-tsypkin-9780811214841","title":"Summer in Baden-Baden","description":"\u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/em\u003e was acclaimed by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e as \"a short poetic masterpiece\" and by Donald Fanger in \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e as \"gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A complex, highly original novel, \u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/em\u003e has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of \"now.\" A narrator--Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M. Coetzee's \u003cem\u003eThe Master of St. Petersburg\u003c\/em\u003e, a Dostoyevsky fantasy. Neither is it a docu-novel, although its author was obsessed with getting everything \"right.\" Nothing is invented, everything is invented. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which in turn resonates with the love of literature's disciple, Leonid Tsypkin, for Dostoyevsky. In a remarkable introductory essay (which appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e), Susan Sontag explains why it is something of a miracle that \u003cem\u003eSummer in Baden-Baden\u003c\/em\u003e has survived, and celebrates the happy event of its publication in America with an account of Tsypkin's beleaguered life and the important pleasures of his marvelous novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonid Tsypkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811214842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.66w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2002 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/03\/2002 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooksense '76 May\/Jun 2002\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2002 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/23\/2002 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/02\/2002 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2002 pg. 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/08\/2007 pg. 14","brand":"Leonid Tsypkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46806949200127,"sku":"9780811214841","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53756a09-7871-4688-8fb6-8a7a0826db5a.jpg?v=1745378147","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/summer-in-baden-baden-leonid-tsypkin-9780811214841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}