"My Italics" is the most famous book by N. Berberova, which immediately became a worldwide bestseller and has kept that position to this day.
Bright, independent, provocative, deeply personal—this autobiography provoked a storm of complaints from its “characters,” and remains a unique testimony to the life of the first Russian émigré community. The portraits of I. Bunin, V. Khodasevich, M. Gorky, A. Bely, M. Tsvetaeva, Z. Gippius, G. Ivanov, and V. Nabokov were written by a completely free person—without looking back, without fear—sometimes with such sharpness and irony, sometimes with trembling tenderness…