For forty years, until the day he died, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia’s Golden Age, was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot. He followed her and her husband around Europe, even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. Yet as far as we know, the relationship with Pauline was chaste. What then did Turgenev mean by ‘love’, the word at the core of his life and work?
In a remarkable work of memoir, literary biography and travel writing, Robert Dessaix has found the pulse that still quickened Turgenev’s age, but has failed in ours.
By:
Robert Dessaix Imprint: BRIO Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 135mm,
Weight: 120g ISBN:9781925143980 ISBN 10: 1925143988 Pages: 256 Publication Date:01 July 2017 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Reviews for Twilight of Love
`The most inventive portrait of a writer's life and legacy since Flaubert's Parrot.' The Independent `A marvellous and unusual book.' The Sunday Times