Evening at Claire's. Night Roads
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Evening at Claire's. Night Roads
4.99 €
At the age of twenty-six, when memories of the harsh years of the Civil War were still vivid in his mind and life as an émigré in France was unsettled, Gaito Gazdanov wrote the novel An Evening at Claire's, bringing back to life the bygone world of his youth. Nikolai was sixteen when he sided with the Whites in the Civil War and was eventually forced to flee the country. After wandering, he ends up in Paris, where he meets a charming Frenchwoman, Claire, whom he fell in love with back in 1917 in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. Every evening Kolya visits Claire, hoping for reciprocated feelings, and each conversation becomes an occasion for memories of childhood, father and mother, friends, lost homeland and the Civil War. "Night Roads," like "An Evening at Clare's," is a largely autobiographical novel. A Russian emigrant, working at night as a cab driver, drives along the night boulevards and the deepest streets of Paris in the 30's, where "the century-old, hopeless poverty". At the same time witness, participant and narrator, he paints a complex and contradictory image of the city's underside, populated by fallen nobles, alcoholic philosophers, madmen and courtesans.
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