| "I would include [it] among the most beautiful, exalting, and original achievements of a century's worth of fiction and para-fiction." Susan Sontag |
A novel about love, married love, and the love of literature, Summer in Baden-Baden is set partly in the present as the narrator crosses Russia in wintertime on a train to Leningrad (the once and future St. Petersburg) and partly in the past as he reimagines the passionate summer of 1867 when Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his young wife Anna travelled across Europe towards Baden-Baden. Dostoyevsky's reckless passions for gambling, for his literary vocation, for his wife, are matched by her all-forgiving love, which is in turn reflected by the love of Leonid Tsypkin for Dostoyevsky.
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Hardback Editions
March 2005 : Hardback
| Title: Summer in Baden-Baden Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin ISBN: 0-241-14309-8 / 978-0-241-14309-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2002 : Hardback
| Title: Summer in Baden-Baden (New Directions) Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin ISBN: 0-8112-1484-2 / 978-0-8112-1484-1 (USA edition) Publisher: New Directions Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2001 : Hardback
| Title: Summer in Baden-Baden Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin; Susan Sontag; Roge Keys; Translator-Roger Keys; Translator-Angel Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Availability: Amazon More details... |
March 1987 : Hardback
| Title: Summer in Baden Baden: From the Life of Dostoyevsky Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin ISBN: 0-7043-2600-0 / 978-0-7043-2600-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Quartet Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Summer in Baden-Baden Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin ISBN: 0-14-102019-9 / 978-0-14-102019-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Summer in Baden-Baden Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin ISBN: 0-8112-1548-2 / 978-0-8112-1548-0 (USA edition) Publisher: New Directions Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2003 : Paperback
| Title: Summer in BadenBaden Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin; Translation From The Russia Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS Availability: Amazon More details... |
December 1990 : Paperback
| Title: Summer in Baden Baden: From the Life of Dostoyevsky Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin ISBN: 0-7043-0135-0 / 978-0-7043-0135-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Quartet Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
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2001 : Unknown
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