Far from Russia: A Memoir

Olga Andreyev Carlisle

März 2000 · Verkauft von Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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" ... Carlisle’s life emerges as stimulating, self-aware, and culturally rich. Many readers will hope for a sequel." - Kirkus Reviews

Olga Andreyev Carlisle has never lived in Russia, and yet throughout her life Russia has never been far. Far From Russia captures the enduring grip of Russia, and how the idea of that homeland shaped her world. We see her first as an aspiring painter in post-World War II Paris, savoring her independent life. There she falls in love with an American G.I., Henry Carlisle. With Henry, she comes to the United States, to Nantucket, where she is introduced to his family's more reserved ways. In New York City, Olga begins to piece together a community in a strange land of artists and writers including, Robert Lowell and Robert Motherwell. Carlisle makes vivid the influential and heady times of both postwar Paris and New York.

Autoren-Profil

Olga Andreyev Carlisle is the granddaughter of the writer Leonid Andreyev and of Victor Chernov, the revolutionary leader who inspired the central figure of her book The Idealists, co-written with her husband Henry Carlisle. A painter, she is also the editor of Poets on Street Corners and the author of Voices in the Snow, Island of Time, Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle, and Under a New Sky. With her husband Henry she is co-translator of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and of Visions, a collection of Andreyev's stories. Born in Paris, she now lives in San Francisco.