The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love - The New York Times
archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 14 Oct 2022 08:50:39 UTC All snapshots from host www.nytimes.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee SECTIONS SEARCH SKIP TO CONTENT SKIP TO SITE INDEX LOG IN What to Read› Fall Books Preview New Books in October National Book Award Finalists Critics’ Reviews Editors’ Choice ESSAY The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love Give this article Elsa Triolet and Viktor Shklovsky. Their “letters not about love,” perhaps precisely because they are not about love, achieve an unmistakable intimacy. Credit... Left: Alamy By Jennifer Wilson Feb. 13, 2021 In 1922, Berlin was the literary capital of the Russian émigré community. Driven away by political instability following the revolution, some of the greatest Russian writers and thinkers of the era — including Vladimir Nabokov, Marc Chagall, Marina Tsvetayeva and Boris Pasternak — descended on the German capital, setting up pu