An Evening with Claire: A Novel - Couverture souple

Gazdanov, Gaito

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 146830884X ISBN 13 : 9781468308846

Editeur : Overlook Books, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“An unsung Russian master.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune 
“A work of great potency . . . It punches very much above its weight, and I have a hunch that what's in it will stay with you for the rest of your life.” —The Guardian
 
“Written by a White Russian émigré in Paris . . . It provides a tantalizing mystery. Much more than a period piece, it is a mesmerizing work of literature.” —Antony Beevor

Praise for The Specrte of Alexander Wolf:

“Truly troubling, a weird meditation on death, war, and sex . . . Bryan Karetnyk’s new translation makes you believe in the power of the original.” —Lorin Stein, The Paris Review

“It’s as if the roman policier has been ltered through Dostoevsky . . . A finely wrought novel, tense and enigmatic, just waiting to be discovered by a filmmaker . . . The narrator relates his tale in gorgeously cadenced long sentences . . . like those of Proust.” —Times Literary Supplement
 “A quiet masterpiece . . . The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a compulsive read, playful yet sinister, meandering yet impressively trim, old-world and modern.” —The Millions

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Originally published in 1930, Gaito Gazdanov’s An Evening with Claire is a masterpiece of Russian émigré literature. Written when its author was just twenty-six—with the memories of his harsh years in the Russian civil war still hauntingly vivid in his mind— An Evening with Claire is a psychological novel that is both grand and introspective. Gazdanov’s fist novel is at once an intimate and sensual account of a young man’s coming-of-age, and a tribute to the shattered dreams of the early twentieth century. As Jodi Daynard writes in her marvelously informed introduction, An Evening with Claire “presented pre-revolutionary Russia and the cataclysmic events which destroyed it in a manner both real and wistful, unregretful yet tender.”

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Overlook Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 146830884X
• ISBN 13: 9781468308846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144