Where the Stress Falls
Publisher: Vintage
Published: February 27, 2003
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780099289418
First sentence: "I WHO WOULD BE nothing without the Russian nineteenth century...," Camus declared, in 1958, in a letter of homage to Pasternak-one of the constellation of magnificent writers whose work, along with the annals of their tragic destinies, preserved, recovered, discovered in translation over the past twenty-five years, has made the Russian twentieth century an event that is (or will prove to be) equally formative and, it being our century as well, far more importunate, impinging.