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Nina Berberova - (Contemporary Western Rusistika) by  Irina Vinokurova (Paperback) - 1 of 1

Nina Berberova - (Contemporary Western Rusistika) by Irina Vinokurova (Paperback)

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  • This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova.
  • About the Author: Dr. Irina Vinokurova (aka Irene Kolchinsky) is a Russian-American literary scholar and critic.
  • 694 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
  • Series Name: Contemporary Western Rusistika

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This book is the first biography of Nina Berberova. Based on years of archival research, the author deciphers many of the conspicuous omissions ("умолчания," as Berberova herself put it) which have intrigued generations of readers of Berberova's autobiography The Italics are Mine. A special focus is given to the four decades Berberova lived in the US, which were left out of her book, and which ended up being extremely productive for her both personally and professionally.



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"Книга Ирины Винокуровой "Нина Берберова известная и неизвестная" (2023) читается не просто как биография Берберовой, но именно как спутник ее автобиографии, внимательное и сочувственное хождение вслед за героиней по ее извилистым путям, которые она сама порой предпочитала скрывать, стирать со страниц своих дневников. И даже как притча о судьбе женщины, которая в труднейших испытаниях, через одиночество и странствия, не затерялась среди гениев и великих, но нашла свой образ и утвердила его в памяти потомков".
-- «5-я Волна» №5, 2024

"Irina Vinokurova's book "Nina Berberova: Known and Unknown" (2023) is read not simply as a biography of Berberova, but precisely as a companion to her autobiography, an attentive and compassionate following in the heroine's footsteps along her winding paths, which she herself sometimes preferred to conceal, to erase from the pages of her diaries. And even as a parable about the fate of a woman who, through the most difficult trials, through loneliness and wanderings, did not get lost among geniuses and great figures, but found her own image and affirmed it in the memory of posterity.»
-- "5 volna" №5, 2024
"Результат многолетних трудов теперь собран под одной обложкой и дополнен фактами из жизни Берберовой с середины 1960-х и вплоть до 1990-х гг. Читатели найдут в книге много любопытного, и фигура Берберовой станет для них более объемной после того, как перед ними раскроется вторая половина ее жизни, не менее насыщенная, чем описанная в мемуарах».
-- «Новое литературное обозрение» №1, 2024

"The result of many years of work is now collected under one cover and supplemented with facts from Berberova's life from the mid-1960s up until the 1990s. Readers will find much of interest in the book, and Berberova's personality will become more multidimensional for them after the second half of her life, no less eventful than what is described in her memoirs, is revealed to them.»
-- "Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie" №1, 2024

"Винокурова относится к Берберовой с симпатией, с подлинным интересом, но совершенно не склонна к агиографическому жанру".
-«Звезда» № 8, 2023


"Vinokurova treats Berberova with sympathy, with genuine interest, but is not at all inclined to the hagiographic genre."
-Zvezda, No. 8, 2023


"...при всей серьезности рассматриваемых проблем и безусловной академичности книги Винокуровой она не грешит пресловутым наукообразием, за которым нередко скрывается пустота. Напротив, биография Берберовой написана в лучших традициях классической научной прозы стройной, логически выверенной и выстроенной, «прозрачной», говорящей «просто о сложном», увлекательной и удерживающей внимание читателя на протяжении без малого семи сотен страниц не менее цепко, чем хороший роман. Именно поэтому книга будет востребована не только специалистами по литературе русской эмиграции, но и всеми, кому интересна история культуры двадцатого столетия, как российской, так и западной".
-"Новый мир", № 8, 2023


"...[D]espite the seriousness of the topics covered and the undeniably scientific nature of Vinokurova's book, it avoids the pitfall of superficial academic jargon that often masks emptiness. Instead, Berberova's biography is crafted in the finest traditions of classic scholarly prose: coherent, logically sound and well-organized, clear, treating complex subjects with simplicity, engaging and holding the reader's focus across almost seven hundred pages as compellingly as any gripping novel. Hence, this book will be demanded not just by experts in Russian emigrant literature but by anyone interested in the cultural history of the twentieth century, both in Russia and the West."
-"Новый мир", № 8, 2023


«Рассказано в книге Ирины Винокуровой о жизни, мнениях и сочинениях Нины Николаевны столько, сколько вряд ли кто в обозримое время сможет поведать. Хотя конкретно исследование ограничено перипетиями вокруг книги «Курсив мой» и годами жизни ее создателя в США, труд Ирины Винокуровой прежде всего оставляет впечатление цельности воссозданной ею жизни вернувшегося из дальних странствий писателя. Теперь существование Нины Берберовой в нашей культуре помещено в добротный, с корректностью и вкусом слаженный переплет. Задвинуть во второй ряд такую книгу удастся очень нескоро. Надеюсь, и вообще не удастся».
-"Знамя", № 9, 2023


"There is so much told about the life, opinions, and writings of Nina Nikolaevna in Irina Vinokurova's book that it is unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon. Although the specific research is limited to the events surrounding the book 'The Italics Are Mine' and the subsequent years its creator spent in the US, the main impression left by Irina Vinokurova's work is that of a fully reimagined life of a writer who returned from distant journeys. Nina Berberova's legacy in our culture has now been set in a sturdy binding, assembled with accuracy and taste. Relegating such a book to the sidelines will not be possible any time soon. Hopefully, it will never be possible."

-Znamya, No. 9, 2023




About the Author



Dr. Irina Vinokurova (aka Irene Kolchinsky) is a Russian-American literary scholar and critic. She is the author of books The Revival of the Russian Literary Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond and «"Всего лишь гений" судьба Николая Глазкова». Her documentary study «Нина Берберова и третья волна эмиграции» received an award from the Zvezda literary magazine (2019). Since 1991, Dr. Vinokurova has lived in the US.
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 694
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Series Title: Contemporary Western Rusistika
Publisher: Bibliorossica
Format: Paperback
Author: Irina Vinokurova
Language: Russian
Street Date: February 24, 2026
TCIN: 1007953788
UPC: 9798897837212
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-9334
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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