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An Evening With Claire
by Gaito Gazdanov
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- Condition
- Very Good, some foxing to top of text block, crown of spine lightly pushed./Very Good jacket, some shelving and handling wear, light rubbing to extremities, some small tearing along crown of front and rea
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About This Item
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1988. 8vo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, 135 pp. Very Good, some foxing to top of text block, crown of spine lightly pushed./Very Good jacket, some shelving and handling wear, light rubbing to extremities, some small tearing along crown of front and rear panel.. A heralded novel by the infamous emigre, Gazdanov's novel has been compared by his contemporaries to the likes of Proust. Despite having his roots firmly in Russia, his work was never published in the Soviet Union.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 883
- Title
- An Evening With Claire
- Author
- Gaito Gazdanov
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, 135 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, some foxing to top of text block, crown of spine lightly pushed.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, some shelving and handling wear, light rubbing to extremities, some small tearing along crown of front and rea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ardis
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- soviet fiction, ardis publishers, ardis, gaito gazdanov, russian fiction, russian literature, soviet literature, emigre fiction, paris
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