Manuscript letter to Denis Roche.
Lot 500
2 5003 000
Manuscript letter to Denis Roche.
21 June 1927, [Paris]. - 1 p. in-8o. In Russian.
Provenance: from the archives of Denis Roche (1868-1951), French writer, translator of Tchekhov, Leskov, Ivan Shmeliov, and other great Russian writers; he was one of the rst men of letters in Europe to have guessed the gigantic genius of Vladimir Nabokov (he translated his novel «Luzhin’s Defense» into French).
2. Trésors du siècle d’or russe, de Pouchkine à Tolstoï / Sous la direction de Georges Nivat. Cologny-Genève, Fondation Martin Bod- mer ; Paris, éditions des Syrtes, 2009. P. 250-257.