{"product_id":"ariane-a-russian-girl-paperback","title":"Ariane, a Russian Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaude Anet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Men speak freely of the women they've had, and we're condemned to silence. Why? Aren't we as free as you? Don't we, like you, have the right to take pleasure wherever we find it? . . . They praise seducers in art, poetry, and literature and put a mask of infamy on any woman who's had many lovers. This is the point where the fight must be fought. Women's morality must triumph, and that's what I'm working at . . .\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus Ariane, unconventional, irrepressible, and irre-sistible, at seventeen the queen bee of the provincial Russian town where, after her mother's early demise, she lives with her freethinking aunt. But Ariane is tired of breaking hearts in the sticks. Her father may wish to marry her off, but she means to go to the university in Moscow, and she will do whatever it takes to make her way the way she likes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Moscow, Ariane is in her element. She loves the glamour of the big city. She's undaunted by its dangers. Before long, she meets Constantin Michel, businessman, man of the world, man-about-town. A new struggle begins.The inspiration for Billy Wilder's \u003ci\u003eLove in the Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e, Ariane has the perverse glitter of Nabokov and the disabused curiosity and keen emotional intelligence of Colette. It is a brilliant exploration--engrossing, unnerving, comic, and cunning--of the matchless cruelty of desire.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Schopfer \u003c\/b\u003e(1868-1931), who wrote under the pseudonym Claude Anet, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Switzerland in 1868 and studied in France at the Sorbonne and École du Louvre. A competitive tennis player, Schopfer wrote several novels, plays, biographies, and travel books, and covered the Russian Revolution as a journalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e is a Brooklyn-based translator and regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. His latest book is his translation, with Richard Greeman, of Victor Serge's \u003ci\u003eNotebooks 1936-1947\u003c\/i\u003e, which is published as an NYRB Classic.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47259377697017,"sku":"9781681377100","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/j1YJcaHHxP9781681377100.webp?v=1768770719","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ariane-a-russian-girl-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}