Мыс Бурь

Berberova Nina Nikolaevna (1901, St. Petersburg - 1993, Philadelphia) - prose writer, poet, memoirist, literary critic. Her autobiographical novel "My Cursive" aroused the admiration and indignation of contemporaries, biographies (M. Zakrevskaya-Benkendorf-Budberg, P. Tchaikovsky, A. Borodin, A. Blok) amaze with knowledge of the material and the author's tact, prose dedicated to the life of emigrants has become a classic . The heroines of the novel "Cape of Storms" are three sisters who were taken from Russia to France as girls. The eldest Dasha is kind to everyone and lives in harmony with the world, the middle one, Sonya, is smart and caustic, she is sure: there is no and cannot be harmony, and no one needs beauty for a long time, the youngest, Zay, just lives a cheerful youth ... Far from her homeland, without family traditions, without faith, they are trying to arrange their lives in Paris on the eve of World War II. The book also includes the essay "Nabokov and his Lolita", published "in hot pursuit" almost immediately after the publication of the scandalous novel.