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The novel Taida, published in 1890, is one of the most famous works by French Nobel Prize winner Anatole France. The work is inspired by the legend of Saint Taida of Egypt, a 4th-century courtesan who converted to Christianity.
The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
The book contains about twenty stories connected into one whole by the main character (the writer Oskar). It is, therefore, a kind of novel that, through intimate confessions, actually talks about the loneliness of the modern intellectual.
Drawing on the novels of Mark Twain, Straub and King in Talisman build a world on the border between everyday American life - detailed and textured with numerous references to popular products, TV series, sweets - and the non-existent world of the Territo
