A review by schopflin
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin

3.0

I don't really like Stream of Consciousness even well it's extremely well done, as it is here by Tsypkin and his translator. And there were many, many scenes of gambling, which I found stressful. But there's much to admire here, particularly around the author squaring his love of Dostoyevsky and the latter's antisemitism. I especially loved the little details of Soviet life. But the main part - Dostoyevsky's travels early in his second marriage - really wasn't for me. 
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