2016年8月17日 星期三

Teffi (1872–1952)

"Teffi’s witticisms echoed throughout St. Petersburg’s salons. There were Teffi bonbons in multi-colored wrappers and a Teffi perfume. (Commendably, Teffi never let any of this go to her head, especially after she gorged on a kilo box of Teffi candy to the point of nausea, becoming — as she herself put it — sick of celebrity.) She was hailed as the female Anton ChekhovNikolai Gogol’s literary heir, the Queen of Russian Humor, and the Queen of Laughter."
Maria Bloshteyn reviews two recent translations of Teffi (1872–1952), a…
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