Description
| Product ID: | 9781805330233 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Title: | The Spectre of Alexander Wolf |
| Authors: | Author: Gaito Gazdanov |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Of all my memories, of all my life''s innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.'' A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim''s point of view. It''s a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer ''Alexander Wolf''. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death. 'A tantalising mystery... a mesmerising work of literature' Antony Beevor'Truly troubling, a weird meditation on death, war and sex' Paris ReviewA superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a centuryA man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for its elusive writer: 'Alexander Wolf'. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globeTranslated by Bryan KaretnykGaito 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 quickly gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer, and was greatly acclaimed by Maxim Gorky, among others. |
| Imprint Name: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Pushkin Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-03 |