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An Evening with Claire

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title An Evening with Claire
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gaito Gazdanov
SeriesPushkin Collection
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 165,Width 120
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781782276050
ClassificationsDewey:891.7344
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pushkin Press
Imprint Pushkin Press
Publication Date 24 June 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Two old friends meet nightly in Paris, trading conversational barbs and manoeuvring around submerged feelings. Throughout the ten years of their separation, thoughts of Claire lingered persistently in Kolya's mind. As the imagined romance finally becomes real, Kolya is thrown into recollections of formative moments from his youth in Russia, from his solitary early years through military school and service in the White Army in the Civil War, all leading to this union with Claire. The first novel by the celebrated Russian master Gaito Gazdanov, An Evening with Claire is a lyrical, finely crafted portrait of a lost innocence and a vanished era.

Author Biography

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 quickly gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer, and was greatly admired by Maxim Gorky, among others. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf was published by Pushkin Press to great acclaim in 2013.

Reviews

"An Evening with Claire is a masterfully crafted book that not only deserves but demands renewed attention."--Los Angeles Review of Books "The Gazdanov revival... is nothing short of a literary event"--TLS "Pushkin Press is to be congratulated on reviving an author who is as relevant now as ever" --Spectator "A fascinating writer"--Irish Times "Gazdanov's work is the perfect fusion of the Russian tradition and French innovation"--London Review of Books