Ariane, jeune fille russe (novel)

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Ariane, jeune fille russe (Ariane, A Russian Girl) is a 1920 novel by the French tennis player and writer Jean Schopfer, published under the pseudonym Claude Anet. It follows a young Russian woman who encounters a Don Juan and falls in love with him.

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It was first translated into English in 1927 by Guy Chapman and published by Knopf. [1] In 2023, New York Review Books published a new translation by Mitchell Abidor. [2]

Adaptations

The novel has been adapted into film several times. In 1931, the German film Ariane was made, with an English-language version called The Loves of Ariane , and a French-language version titled Ariane, jeune fille russe . All three were directed by Paul Czinner, and starred Elisabeth Bergner. In 1957, Billy Wilder adapted the novel for his American film Love in the Afternoon . In 1970, Muzaffer Arlsan adapted the novel for his Turkish film Arım Balım Peteğım. The same year, it was also the basis for a Lebanese-Egyptian film called The Great Love, starring Farid Al Attrash and Faten Hamama. In 2011, Prabhu Deva adapted the novel for his Tamil-language films as Engeyum Kaadhal .

In Vladimir Nabokov's 1930 short novel, The Eye , two of the female characters are reading Ariane, jeune fille russe. [3]

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References

  1. Clark, Edwin (1927-03-20). "M. Anet Writes a Novel for the Urbane; ARIANE. By Claude Anet. Translated from the French by Guy Chapman. 279 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  2. "Ariane, A Russian Girl". New York Review Books. 2023-08-01. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  3. Johnson, D. Barton (Winter 1985). "The Books Reflected in Nabokov's Eye". The Slavic and East European Journal. 29 (4): 393–404. doi:10.2307/307461. JSTOR   307461.