ABOUT THE WIVES BY ALEXANDRA POPOFFPublished on August 1, 2012 New York–London: Pegasus Books To be translated into Portuguese (Brazil) and Polish The women behind the greatest works of Russian literature: Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn were their husbands’ muses, intellectual companions, and indispensable advisers. These marriages were marked by intense collaboration: the women contributed ideas and committed to paper great works as stenographers, typists, editors, researchers, translators, and publishers. To use Vladimir Nabokov’s words, they formed a “single shadow” with the writers. |
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