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Iouri Droujnikov: la seconde femme de Pouchkine. Traduit du russe par Lucile Nivat. Fayard, 2009.

Cet ouvrage a été publié sur la recommandation et avec la collaboration éditoriale de professeur Georges Nivat, bloggeur de Nasha Gazeta.

Pouchkine, "notre tout", selon la formule ritualisée russe, n'est pas le tout de l'oeuvre de Droujnikov, mais il y apparaît souvent. Le professeur Droujnikov était un pouchkiniste plutôt icoloclaste. Quant à cette fantaisie burlesque, elle fera grincer des dents les puristes. Quoi? Imaginer qu'une jeune femme détraquée sexuelle se fait fabriquer un Pouchkine de bois, avec tous ses attributs masculins (dont il n'était pas très fier), couche avec lui, et a même un fils de lui? Enfin, pas tout à fait, car pour l'engendrement, il a quand même fallu un "donneur"... Et comme Droujnikov adore entrelacer Russie et Amérique, et que son don d'observation est égal pour l'une et l'autre, le donneur sera un étudiant de Berkeley qui fait sa thèse sur "le féminisme de Pouchkine", tandis que la bénéficiare sera une des guides du Musée de la rue de quai Moïka, n° 12, à Saint-Pétersbourg, la dernière demeure du poète.

Moeurs soviétiques subsistant sous la "démocratie", ou tout est devenu vénal, moeurs californiennes ou d'habiles plaideuses peuvent déplumer un nigaud, puceau de surcroît - l'humour est vraiement au rendez-vous. Tout l'art d'un conteur-né est là: drôle à en pleurer. 

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Nadia Sikorsky

Nadia Sikorsky was born and raised in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and went on to complete her postgraduate studies there, earning a PhD in History. She spent 13 years at UNESCO, first in Paris and then in Geneva. After serving as Director of Communications at Green Cross International, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, she launched NashaGazeta.ch in 2007, Switzerland’s first Russian-language online daily newspaper.

In 2022, Nadia Sikorsky was named to Le Temps’ Forum des 100, which brings together individuals who, in the newspaper’s view, have “significantly contributed to the success of French-speaking Switzerland”, from across public life, business, politics, science and culture.

After 18 years at the helm of NashaGazeta.ch, Nadia Sikorsky decided to devote herself to what had always held a special place in her work as a journalist: culture in all its diversity. This led to the creation of Russian Accent, a trilingual cultural blog in Russian, French and English, born in the heart of Europe, in Switzerland, which has become her second home and whose multiculturalism and multilingualism have helped shape the character of this new project.

At the heart of the project is the perspective of a European of Russian origin, drawing on more than 35 years of professional experience and a deep knowledge of both cultural traditions. Nadia Sikorsky sees her role as that of a cultural mediator between the two. The title of the blog, Russian Accent, reflects this idea: the accent is neither a linguistic barrier nor a political position, but a distinctive cultural imprint within a European context.

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