The evening at the Claire. Night roads. Gazdanov G.

Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) - the largest writer of the Russian abroad, whom contemporaries put on a par with Vladimir Nabokov and compared with Marseille Proust and Ivan Bunin, admiring the musicality of his prose, poetry and the power of the language. After the revolution, in the incomplete sixteen years, Gazdanov joined the white movement and later was forced to leave Russia forever, sharing the fate of many Russian emigrants. He spent most of his life in Paris and, as an eminent writer, continued to work as a night taxi driver for many years; In 1953 he became a correspondent, and then the editor of Radio Liberty.

The most significant works of Gaito Gazdanov are included in the present publication: “The evening at the Claire”, the first novel that brought the author fame and opened the doors before him leading literary magazines, as well as the novels “Night Roads”, “The Ghost of Alexander Wolf”, “The Return of the Buddha”, the chosen stories written in different years of life.