Metro Stop Dostoevsky: Travels in Russian Time

by Ingrid Bengis

The daughter of Russian emigres, Ingrid Bengis grew up wondering whether she was an American or, deep down, "really Russian." In 1991, naively in love with Russia and Russian literature, she settled in St. Petersburg, where she was quickly immersed in "catastroika," a period of immense turmoil that mirrored her own increasingly complex and contradictory experience." "Bengis's involvement with Russia is heightened by her involvement with B, a Russian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865476721
• ISBN13: 9780865476721
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: North Point Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Northern Lights

A book about Russia that makes your heart squawk like the sofa springs in Tolstoy's "Ivan Ilych" and sing like Mandelstam's "We shall meet again in St. Petersburg." Beauty for Ingrid Bengis as for Dostoevsky is a bright force and a dark well, like staring into the night sky. This is Russia's particular kind of beauty, for which _Metro Stop Dostoevsky_ is both invitation and warning, as it should be.

Metro Stop Dostoevsky

A wonderful book! Captures relationships; explores in thoughtful and insightful ways,the way one's own struggles for identity are the same and different as those from another culture. Intimate and personal but placed in a broader context as well. A very soulful, moving memoir.

The hopes and despairs of real Russians

This is a marvelous book about the lives of ordinary Russians in the "New Russia" Ingrid Bengis has the rare aqbility to make you feel you are participating in a chat around the kitchen table in a Russian apartment.With her background in Russian literature and History she brings valuable insights intoboth what has changed and what remains the same as always in Russia.As a person who has made many trips to Russia I felt in reading the book I was back with old fiends sharing their frustrations.Above all the book is beautifully written and a pleasure to read.