Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea -

Téffi

NYRB Classics

2016

296 páginas

9h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781590179512

Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced.

In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was foreseeable when she arrived in German-occupied Kiev to discover a hotbed of artistic energy and experimentation. When Kiev fell several months later to Ukrainian nationalists, Teffi fled south to Odessa, then on to the port of Novorossiysk, from which she embarked at last for Constantinople. Danger and death threaten throughout Memories, even as the book displays the brilliant style, keen eye, comic gift, and deep feeling that have made Teffi one of the most beloved of twentieth-century Russian writers.

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A famosa escritora russa de pseudônimo "TEFFI" descreve sua derradeira viagem ao sul da Rússia , realizando apresentações artísticas.
Boa descrição Do que viria a ser a Ucrânia ,e do cenário pós-revolução , com bolcheviques ocupando espaços.paulatinamente e o povo fugindo para onde fosse possível.
Moscou - Kiev -Odessa- Sebastopol -Novorossisk-Yekaterinodar...e então o exílio inevitável na França ,passando por Constantinopla.
Teffi ,vai inconscientemente se despedindo , se desapegando , contemplando , partindo ,sem olhar para trás.
O livro inspira boas reflexões : o suposto fim , que é apenas um recomeço da caminhada , inexorável