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Article: A critical romance.(Summer in Baden-Baden)(Book review)
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- December 1, 2006
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Summer in Baden-Baden, by Leonid Tsypkin, translated by Roger and Angela Keys; Penguin, 2006, $24.95.
THE ENCHANTED STRIP of Europe from the Upper Rhine to Switzerland is haunted by literary ghosts. Some of them have Russian accents. Waiting for the bus in Geneva a while ago, I was startled to find Dostoevsky's name on a plaque discreetly affixed, just above eye level, to the wall of the apartment block just behind me. This apartment, between the Anglican church and the lakeside, was where he and his wife had worried over their daughter Sonechka, who died soon after being born in the city. The Old Gallery in Basel still has the remarkable naturalistic painting by ...