Gaito Gazdanov

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Russian émigré investigates a mysterious resemblance to his past in Paris

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Gaito Gazdanov
Gaito Gazdanov

Russian emigre author who lived in Paris and drove a night taxi while writing modernist fiction. An Evening with Claire and The Spectre of Alexander Wolf are his most celebrated works, exhibiting a lyrical melancholy unique in emigre literature.

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