{"product_id":"summer-in-baden-baden-9780811215480","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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2561888\"\u003eLeonid Tsypkin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.02w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811215480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811215482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684628041965,"sku":"9780811215480","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_2f662fbd-8a16-48a5-a66c-3d3b749d6889.jpg?v=1649756371","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/summer-in-baden-baden-9780811215480","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}