The Eternal Midwit

In the comments to previous translations, brought up Teffi multiple times and nudged me to finally translate some of her works. Even Teffi’s non-fiction featured dialogue and as playful as her short stories, so despite I’m starting with what seems to be non-fiction, you’d be able to very well grasp her voice and sense of humour.

To know each other a bit better, Teffi was the pseudonym of Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (1872–1952), one of the most popular and influential satirical writers in ...