Night roads: Gaito Gazdanov

Gaito Gazdanov belongs to the circle of Russian writers who in Russia for a long time did not know and did not read. Having joined after the revolution to the white movement, he never returned to his homeland, sharing the fate of many Russian emigrants. Living in Paris, he worked as a port loader, a steam locomotive, a worker, a taxi driver. G. Gazdanov published his first stories in the Paris Journal of the Volya of Russia, and his first novel, which immediately brought success, was released in Paris in 1929. The early Gazdanov was compared with Prust, Dostoevsky and Kafka, late – with Alber Camus, Julien Green and Mario Soldati. After the war, Gazdanov worked for many years on the Radio “Freedom”, hundreds of listeners gathered his transfer to classical and modern Russian literature. His novel “Night Roads” (1941) is not only an outstanding work of literature, but also one of the few truly true evidence of real events and the spiritual history of Russian emigration.

Author
Gazdanov Gaito Ivanovich
Editor
Solovyova Galina
Publisher
Foreigner, 2014
Series
Foreign. literature. Modern classic (mini)