Forgotten Teffi. About the Titanic, comets, fortune-tellers, spring, and the end of the world
The elegant, ironic, and sometimes sarcastic stories of Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, who gained fame over 100 years ago as Teffi, have been regularly reissued since the 1990s. But mostly this is early humorous or lyrical émigré prose. Meanwhile, her pre-revolutionary feuilletons long...
remained in the shadows. And now, for the first time, they are published under one cover. These brilliantly written notes, full of subtle observations and accurate assessments of Russian everyday life at the beginning of the 20th century, remarkably resonate with modernity — we have so much in common with Teffi's characters, and her stories are written in such a vivid and flexible language.
The elegant, ironic, and sometimes sarcastic stories of Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, who gained fame over 100 years ago as Teffi, have been regularly reissued since the 1990s. But mostly this is early humorous or lyrical émigré prose. Meanwhile, her pre-revolutionary feuilletons long remained in the shadows. And now, for the first time, they are published under one cover. These brilliantly written notes, full of subtle observations and accurate assessments of Russian everyday life at the beginning of the 20th century, remarkably resonate with modernity — we have so much in common with Teffi's characters, and her stories are written in such a vivid and flexible language.
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