Berberova biography

Born July 26 August 8 in St. Petersburg. With the exile, where her literary debut was held in the magazine "Conversation", published by M. Gorky and husband Berberova to V., an employee and the permanent author of the newspaper "Latest News" before it was closed, published in a series of stories the Bijankur holidays; Together with the novels, the last and first, the lord and without sunset, they determined the reputation of Berberova-Proseik.

In the responses of criticism, the proximity of Berberova’s prose “well -cleared gardens of the French novel” was noted by V. Weidle and at the same time the seriousness of her attempt to create “the image of the emigrant world in its epic refraction” V. The daily life of the emigration, the social landscape of the outskirts or “underground” determined the sound of a cycle of stories, which was published in the years and in the years published by a separate publication.

The theme of homelessness, which is not important to Berberova’s work, not recognized as a tragedy, but as the inevitable destiny of a person of the 20th century, who is free from adherence to a “nest”, which ceased to serve as a “symbol of protection, charms and strength of life” is born. Nevertheless, the latter and the first describes the attempt to build a “nest” to distinguish the disaster.

The hero of the novel, having forbidden to longing in Russia, tries to create something like a Russian peasant community, not only providing shelter, but who returned it to the participants a sense of their cultural identity. This topic subsequently did not find a continuation in Berberova’s work, but turned out to be woven into her personal biography: she lived on the little farm for years, engaged in peasant labor.

She moved to Berberov to the United States, where she taught Russian, and then Russian literature at Princeton University. The circle of her writing interests remained the same. In the novel of Cape Storms, two generations of emigration are described: the elder who does not think of his life outside the traditional Russian establishments “People of the last century”, and young, for whom “Ecumenical” is more important than “native”.

The loss of Russia leads the “second generation” to the loss of God, but the everyday and spiritual disasters experienced by it are comprehended as the stages of liberation from the shackles of the tradition on which the world order collapsed with the revolution. Even before the war of Berberova, two books of a documentary-biographical nature of Tchaikovsky, the story of a lonely life, Borodin, evaluated as the phenomena of a new literary quality were published: a novel without fiction, or, as Khodasevich wrote, “creatively seen” biography, strictly holding on facts, however, covering them with freedom inherent in the novelists.

As the critic of Berberov justified the prospects of this genre, which is especially in demand in times of interest in outstanding individuals and destinies. Its highest achievement on this path was the iron woman, the biography of the Baroness M. Budberg, whose life was closely connected with M. Gorky, and then with G. without fiction and without “decorations born of imagination”, Berberova created a bright portrait of an adventurer, who belonged to the human type, which, from the point of view of the author, especially clearly revealed typical features of 20 V.

Built on unknown documents, letters and evidence of eyewitnesses, the author’s memoirs about his own meetings with the heroine and historical and philosophical thoughts, the story covers for almost half a century, ending with a description of the Budberg trip to Moscow to Br. In English, and in Russian, an autobiography of N. Berberova was published in which, in which, looking back at her life, she establishes “returning topics” and reconstructs her past in the spiritual and ideological context of time.

Determining his life and literary position as anti -nuclear, anti -Orthodox and pro -Western, Berberov through these characteristics builds the “structure” of his own personality, opposing the “meaninglessness and fragility of the world”. The book gives a unique panorama of the intellectual and artistic life of Russian emigration between the two world wars.

It contains valuable memoirs, especially about Khodasevich and analysis of the work of prominent writers of the Russian abroad Nabokov, G. Ivanov and others. She came to Russia in Berber, met with literary critics and readers. Berberov died in Philadelphia on September 26 from the Encyclopedia "Circumb"; In the pictures: Nina Berberova x years; N. Berberova, Princeton,; N.

Moscow, September in this work, famous Russian writer Nina Nikolaevna Berberova GG. Many literary scholars consider the book “MY” to be a key work of a writer aimed at reflecting “knowledge of oneself”, in which she analyzes her actions and reveals their motives. The author reveals the story of the formation of his consciousness, the personality in general. At the same time, in this book, N.

Bereberova “gives a response to the life of my generation that exists in two worlds: one, which goes to an end, and a friend of barely starting.” Also, the writer, not afraid of subjective assessments, writes about many figures of Russian emigration. Annotation of the publishing house Yevgeny Vitkovsky.Berberova - “The Last and the First,” - printed in the form of fragments at first in the “Modern Notes” of G.

Volotsky - was actually the first Russian novel dedicated to the life of ordinary Russians in France. Despite some imitation, almost always inherent in the first works of any novice author, the novel caused many responses and sympathetic reviews. But there was one more in this novel. Almost the first Berberov felt the pressure that Bolshevik bodies began to exert on immigrants from Russia during the years of NEP.

The novel shows the activity of the whole organization on "fishing" and the return of the lost in the USSR. It is this “hand of Moscow” that the heroes of the novel are trying to resist. Tchaikovsky, written by Nina Berberova in the year. Not silent about the "scandalous" aspects of the life of the great composer, Berberov creates a contradictory portrait of a man of a brilliant, suffering and triumphant in his music over everyday life.

Annotation of the Borodin Chronicle Publishing House HTML KB - March OCR: Alexander Belousenko Seattle, USA Processing: David Titievsky Haifa, Israel "It always seemed to him that poets, writers, even painters were not scolded and not so rude, flat and impudently, as they scolded and reproached composers. He never suffered from Russian musical writings Critics, but Mussorgsky suffered from them in annoyance, stained with them, Stasov also rudely, Borodin, too, a respected person, a scientist with a name and a star, recognized as a composer, and he is sheltered in Russia, and how!

Others, characterized by subtle psychologism and classical style culture. Annotation of the publishing house.