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Originally published in 1930, Gaito Gazdanov’s An Evening with Claire is a masterpiece of Russian émigré literature. Written when its author was just twenty-six—with the memories of his harsh years in the Russian civil war still hauntingly vivid in his mind—An Evening with Claire is a psychological novel that is both grand and introspective. Gazdanov’s fist novel is at once an intimate and sensual account of a young man’s coming-of-age, and a tribute to the shattered dreams of the early twentieth century. As Jodi Daynard writes in her marvelously informed introduction, An Evening with Claire presented pre-revolutionary Russia and the cataclysmic events which destroyed it in a manner both real and wistful, unregretful yet tender.”
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An Evening with Claire, Gaito Gasdanow
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- An Evening with Claire
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gaito Gasdanow
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0715649175
- ISBN13
- 9780715649176
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Classics, 20th century, Russia, Novellas, Russian Literature, Paris, Russian Revolution
- First published
- 1930
- Original title
- Večer u Klèr
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Originally published in 1930, Gaito Gazdanov’s An Evening with Claire is a masterpiece of Russian émigré literature. Written when its author was just twenty-six—with the memories of his harsh years in the Russian civil war still hauntingly vivid in his mind—An Evening with Claire is a psychological novel that is both grand and introspective. Gazdanov’s fist novel is at once an intimate and sensual account of a young man’s coming-of-age, and a tribute to the shattered dreams of the early twentieth century. As Jodi Daynard writes in her marvelously informed introduction, An Evening with Claire presented pre-revolutionary Russia and the cataclysmic events which destroyed it in a manner both real and wistful, unregretful yet tender.”