Burning Lights: A Unique Double Portrait of Russia - Couverture souple

Chagall, Bella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805208631 ISBN 13 : 9780805208634

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1988

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall.

Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was Burning Lights, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holidays of the Jewish year.

Revue de presse :

“A happy collaboration between painter Marc Chagall and his wife Bella. . . . Chagall’s illustrations capture that special quality of fantasy blended with truth.”
—Saturday Review

“In simple prose, Mrs. Chagall brings us into close contact with the Russian-Jewish community of the last generation—a life that is now physically in ruins but spiritually alive.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Pure pleasure to read . . . evocative, wistful. There is none who will not love this little book.”
—New York Herald Tribune

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0805208631
• ISBN 13: 9780805208634
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 272