Night Roads: A Novel (European Classics) - Softcover

Gazdanov, Gaito

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810125587 ISBN 13: 9780810125582

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 2009

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Book by Gazdanov Gaito

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Reseña del editor:

Drawing together episodes of rich atmosphere, this novel is as deep and brooding as the Paris nights that serve as its backdrop. Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov arrived in Paris, as so many did, between the wars and would go on, with this fourth novel, to give readers a crisp rendering of a living city changing beneath its people's feet.
Night Roads is loosely based on the author's experiences as a cab driver in those disorienting, often brutal years, and the narrator moves from episode to episode, holding court with many but sharing his mind with only a few. His companions are drawn straight out of the Parisian past: the legendary courtesan Jeanne Raldi, now in her later days, and an alcoholic philosopher who goes by the name of Plato. Along the way, the driver picks up other characters, such as the dull thinker who takes on the question of the meaning of life only to be driven insane. The dark humor of that young man's failure against the narrator's authentic, personal explorations of the same subject is captured in this first English translation.

Biografía del autor:

Gaito Gazdanov (1903-71) belonged to the circle of Russian émigré writers in Paris after World War I that included Vladimir Nabokov. Writing exclusively in his native Russian, he published nine novels, including his acclaimed debut, An Evening with Claire.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0810125587
• ISBN 13: 9780810125582
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272