{"product_id":"mauriac-francois-end-of-night-a-novel-in-two-books-konets-nochi-la-fin-de-la-nuit-1936-in-russian","title":"Mauriac, François. End of Night: A Novel in Two Books (Konets nochi \/ La Fin de la Nuit). 1936. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eМориак, Франсуа (1885-1970). Конец ночи : роман в двух книгах : кн. I. Тереза Дэкейру (Thérèse Desqueyroux, 1927) ; кн. II. Конец ночи (La Fin de la Nuit, 1935) \/ перевод с французского Н. П. Довгалевской ; предисловие И. В. Анисимова ; художник А. Репников.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Государственное издательство «Художественная литература», 1936. 320 с. ; 21 см.\u003cbr\u003eТвёрдый переплёт. Тираж 10 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eПереплёт в хорошем состоянии: ткань имеет утраты на всех четырёх углах и по концам корешка; переплёт конструктивно держится. Блок в хорошем состоянии: форзацы и начальные листы с пятнами влаги; бумага равномерно пожелтела; страницы полные.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eMauriac, François (1885-1970). Konets nochi [End of Night: A Novel in Two Books] : Book I. Theresa Dekeiru (Thérèse Desqueyroux, 1927); Book II. Konets nochi (La Fin de la Nuit, 1935) \/ translated from the French by N. P. Dovgalevskaia ; foreword by I. V. Anisimov ; designed by A. Repnikov.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : Goslitizdat (State Publishing House Khudozhestvennaia literatura), 1936. 320 pp. ; 21 cm.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Print run of 10,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding good: cloth with losses at all four corners and at head and tail of spine; binding structurally sound. Text block good: endpapers and preliminary leaves with moisture staining; text leaves uniformly age-toned; pages complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrançois Mauriac (1885-1970), the Bordeaux-born Catholic novelist and laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952, was among the most widely translated Western authors in early Soviet Russia during the brief period of relative cultural openness before the full imposition of Socialist Realism. The present volume is a paired edition of the two Thérèse Desqueyroux novels, presented under the unifying Russian title \"Konets Nochi\" (End of Night) as a \"novel in two books.\" Book I, \"Thérèse Desqueyroux\" (1927), the more celebrated of the pair, follows a young Gascon bourgeois woman who poisons her husband in an act of obscure existential revolt, is acquitted on procedural grounds, and is returned to the stifling confinement of the family estate; it has been filmed twice, most recently in 2012 with Audrey Tautou. Book II, \"La Fin de la Nuit\" (1935), its direct sequel, traces Thérèse in middle-aged Parisian exile. The translation by Nadezhda Petrovna Dovgalevskaia remained the standard Soviet version of both novels for decades. The foreword by Ivan Vasilievich Anisimov (1899-1966) - a prominent Soviet critic of Western literature and later director of the Gorky Institute of World Literature - presents Mauriac's work within ideologically acceptable terms as a critique of bourgeois capitalism. Signed for press in December 1936, the volume appeared in a year of intense cultural and political pressure in the USSR, and is among the last substantial Soviet editions of a major Western Catholic writer before ideological tightening restricted such publications. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44374059515946,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_4268.jpg?v=1779056474","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/mauriac-francois-end-of-night-a-novel-in-two-books-konets-nochi-la-fin-de-la-nuit-1936-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}