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Alexandra Popoff

Autore di Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography

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Alexandra Popoff is a former Moscow journalist, an expert on Russian literature and cultural history, and the author of several literary biographies, including the award-winning Sophia Tolstoy and The Wives, a Wall Street Journal best nonfiction title for 2012.

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Alexandra Popoff
Data di nascita
20th century
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
Canadian
Luogo di nascita
Moscow, Soviet Union
Luogo di residenza
Canada
Istruzione
MA, English Literature; MA Slavic Languages and Literatures; BA, Creative Writing (Moscow Literary Institute)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Canadian Jewish Literary award (Biography, 2019); National Jewish Book Awards (Finalist, 2019); Cundill History Prize (long-listed, 2019); Saskatchewan Book Awards (Non-fiction, 2010, 2020)
Agente
Don Fehr (Trident Media Group)
Breve biografia
ALEXANDRA POPOFF is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is an expert on Russian cultural history and the author of several literary biographies, including the award-winning VASILY GROSSMAN (2019) and SOPHIA TOLSTOY (2010). Her book THE WIVES became a Wall Street Journal best non-fiction title for 2012. Popoff has written for The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, National Post, The Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, Tablet Magazine, and other media outlets. She lives in Canada.

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This literary biography gives wonderful insight into the mind of a brilliant, humane author and into his life as a writer and a Jew in the Soviet eras of Stalin and Kruschev.
 
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renclbb | Jan 23, 2024 |
Si la obra maestra de Vasili Grossman, Vida y destino, se hubiera publicado en vida del autor, lo hubiera hecho a la vez que Doctor Zhivago de Pasternak y antes de Archipiélago Gulag de Solzhenitsyn, pero Vida y destino fue secuestrada por el KGB. Cuando se publicó póstumamente, décadas después, fue reconocida como la Guerra y Paz del siglo XX.

Vasili Grossman (1905-1964) se formó como ingeniero, pero abandonó su trabajo en los años treinta para dedicarse en exclusiva a la escritura. Tras el estallido de la segunda guerra mundial se convirtió en corresponsal de guerra para el Ejército Rojo, publicando aclamadas crónicas de las batallas de Moscú, Stalingrado, Kursk y Berlín. Su testimonio sobre los campos de exterminio nazis, escrito tras la liberación de Treblinka, se encuentra entre los primeros documentos escritos acerca del Holocausto judío y fue utilizado como prueba en los juicios de Núremberg.

Después de la segunda guerra mundial, la fe de Grossman en el Estado soviético se vio socavada por el giro antisemita del régimen de Stalin. Aunque nunca llegó a ser arrestado por las autoridades soviéticas, sus dos obras maestras (Vida y destino y Todo fluye) fueron censuradas por antisoviéticas, y cuando Grossman falleció en 1964 Vida y destino permanecía inédita y seguiría estándolo hasta que pudo ser publicada en Occidente merced al trabajo de una red de disidentes. La primera edición en la Unión Soviética data de 1988, durante la fase aperturista del gobierno de Mijaíl Gorbachov. La obra alcanzó rápidamente un éxito enorme y pasó a ser aclamada como una de las cumbres literarias del siglo XX.
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bibliotecayamaguchi | Oct 19, 2020 |
This is an important book for anyone who appreciates Tolstoy's works. Without Sophia, we might not have had War and Peace or Anna Karenina. However, Tolstoy's genius cost his wife dearly, both in her reputation and her own personal interests. She's became one of the most maligned figures in literary history. This book makes no secret of telling Tolstoy's story from Sophia's point of view.
 
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JodiLEK | 2 altre recensioni | Mar 31, 2018 |
Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography
by Alexandra Popoff (2010)

Drawn on newly available archival material, including Sophia’s unpublished memoir.

An exceptional biography defining Sophia's role in Tolstoy's legacy.
Wife, mother, editor, archivist, publisher, businesswoman, intellectual...and so much more.

Maligned by Tolstoy's acolyates, we meet a remarkably passionate woman
and experience her perspective , her joy and despair in being married to
a literary genius (great and volatile).

It was an uncomplicated read and teeming with historical detail
and both an uplifting and equally tragic account of their union.
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pennsylady | 2 altre recensioni | Jan 25, 2016 |

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Opere
8
Utenti
223
Popolarità
#100,550
Voto
4.0
Recensioni
5
ISBN
20
Lingue
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