Ariane, A Russian Girl

Claude Anet, Mitchell Abidor

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NYRB Classics
05 September 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

In this long-overdue translation of the novel that inspired the 1957 Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper film Love in the Afternoon, a young woman finds independence and love with an older man in pre-revolutionary Moscow-a relationship depicted with a complexity and sexual frankness that feels remarkably ahead of its time.

""Men speak freely of the women they've had, and we'recondemned to silence. Why? Aren't we as free as you?

Don't we, like you, have the right to take pleasure whereverwe find it? . . . They praise seducers in art, poetry, andliterature and put a mask of infamy on any woman who'shad many lovers. This is the point where the fight mustbe fought. Women's morality must triumph, and that'swhat I'm working at . . .""

Thus Ariane, unconventional, irrepressible, and irre-sistible, at seventeen the queen bee of the provincialRussian town where, after her mother's early demise,she lives with her freethinking aunt. But Ariane is tiredof breaking hearts in the sticks. Her father may wish tomarry her off, but she means to go to the university inMoscow, and she will do whatever it takes to make herway the way she likes.

In Moscow, Ariane is in her element. She loves theglamour of the big city. She's undaunted by its dangers.

Before long, she meets Constantin Michel, businessman,man of the world, man-about-town. A new struggle begins.

The inspiration for Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon,Arianehasthe perverse glitter of Nabokov andthe disabused curiosity and keenemotional intelligence of Colette. It isa brilliant exploration-engrossing,unnerving, comic, and cunning-ofthe matchless cruelty of desire.

By: Claude Anet, Mitchell Abidor
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781681377100
ISBN 10: 1681377101
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean Schopfer (1868-1931), who wrote under the pseudonym Claude Anet, was born in Switzerland in 1868 and studied in France at the Sorbonne and cole du Louvre. A competitive tennis player, Schopfer wrote several novels, plays, biographies, and travel books, and covered the Russian Revolution as a journalist. Mitchell Abidor is a Brooklyn-based translator and regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His latest book is his translation, with Richard Greeman, of Victor Serge's Notebooks 1936-1947, which is published as an NYRB Classic.

Reviews for Ariane, A Russian Girl

“The beauty of literary love is that one can take it as a further exploration of one’s consciousness and sexuality…Ariane feeds that need, and this page-turner of a small novel can be a wonderful love in the afternoon.” —Tosh Berman ""Ariane is a rich study of the workings of passion and love’s foundational misunderstandings, which lead us to love fantasies instead of human beings. It’s also an investigation into the durability of feeling. To make it last, don’t we have to hide ourselves and play a part?"" —Hervé Bel, ActuaLitté