An Evening with Claire (eBook)

Gaito Gazdanov (Autor)

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2021
224 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-606-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master Gaito Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf'The Gazdanov revival... is nothing short of a literary event' TLSTwo old friends meet nightly in Paris, after a separation of ten years. Trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings, Claire and Koyla resume what fate interrupted. When their long-imagined romance at last becomes reality, Kolya is engulfed by memories of Russia, from a tragic and solitary childhood to the disorienting ordeal of civil war. As his haunting recollection takes shape, so too does a portrait of lost youth set against the trauma of a vanished homeland.Written when Gazdanov was just twenty-six, An Evening with Claire is the celebrated Russian master's debut novel, and appears here in an elegant new translation by Bryan Karetnyk. Melancholic and lyrical, it is a powerful distillation of the quintessential émigré experience: caught between two worlds, belonging to neither.

Autor

Gaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) joined the White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventually became a nocturnal taxi-driver and gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf, The Beggar and Other Stories, The Buddha's Return and The Flight are also published by Pushkin Press.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2021
• Übersetzer: Bryan Karetnyk
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1920s Paris novels • Gazdanov • Gazdanov first novel • Nabokov • Nina Berberova • Pale Fire • Russian Civil War fiction • Russian classic • Russian émigré fiction • Russian Modernism • The Last and the First • The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
• ISBN-10: 1-78227-606-8 / 1782276068
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-606-7 / 9781782276067