Эренбург И. Лето 1925 года.
Первое издание.
Серия: Новости русской литературы
Москва: Артель писателей «Круг», 1926 г.
206 с.; 17,7 × 13,5 см;
Тираж 5000 экз.
В издательском картонажном переплете работы художника И.Ф. Рерберга.
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Ehrenburg I. Summer of 1925.
First edition.
Series: News of Russian Literature
Moscow: Artel of Writers "Krug", 1926
206 p.; 17.7 × 13.5 cm;
One of 5000 copies.
In the publisher's cardboard binding by the artist I.F. Rerberg.
Ilya Ehrenburg's poignant 1926 novel captures the author's melancholic observations of post-war Paris. Returning to the French capital, Ehrenburg witnessed the profound transformation of European urban culture—the encroaching Americanization of society, escalating social tensions, and the disorientation of a generation struggling to establish meaning in the modern world. Scholar B.Ya. Frezinsky identifies this work as Ehrenburg's most sorrowful creation, a designation the aging writer himself would later affirm. The narrative emerges from lived experience, reflecting the intellectual and emotional turbulence of the interwar period. Ehrenburg (1891–1967), a prolific Russian writer, poet, and journalist, spent much of his career in European exile before eventually settling in the Soviet Union, bringing to his work an intimate understanding of displacement and cultural upheaval.
