An Evening at Claire's
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An Evening at Claire's
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Gaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) was one of the greatest writers of the Russian Abroad. After the revolution, at the age of sixteen, Gazdanov joined the White Movement and served as a private soldier on an armored train, and then was forced to leave Russia forever, sharing the fate of many Russian emigrants. He spent most of his life in Paris and for many years worked as a night cab driver, from 1953 he was a correspondent and then editor of Radio Liberty.
"Evening at Claire's" (1929), Gazdanov's first novel, brought the young author fame, opening before him the doors of leading literary magazines. Contemporaries put Gazdanov on a par with Vladimir Nabokov, and among his "predecessors" called Marcel Proust and Ivan Bunin, admiring the subtle poetry and musicality of his prose, freshness and strength of language. However, in the writer's homeland, the novel was published only after the author's death, in 1990. In addition to the novel "An Evening at Claire's," this edition includes stories by Gaito Gazdanov written in the 1930s, as well as the novel "The Ghost of Alexander Wolf" (1947).
"Evening at Claire's" (1929), Gazdanov's first novel, brought the young author fame, opening before him the doors of leading literary magazines. Contemporaries put Gazdanov on a par with Vladimir Nabokov, and among his "predecessors" called Marcel Proust and Ivan Bunin, admiring the subtle poetry and musicality of his prose, freshness and strength of language. However, in the writer's homeland, the novel was published only after the author's death, in 1990. In addition to the novel "An Evening at Claire's," this edition includes stories by Gaito Gazdanov written in the 1930s, as well as the novel "The Ghost of Alexander Wolf" (1947).
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