The Spectre of Alexander Wolf - Gaito Gazdanov

Descriere The Spectre of Alexander Wolf - Gaito Gazdanov

Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.' \nA man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the elusive writer 'Alexander Wolf'. A singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death. \nA superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a century \nThis psychological novel takes stock of death, war, violence and the guilt that undergirds it all. -- The New York Times Book Review \n \n A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man. \n \n So begins the strange quest for its elusive writer: Alexander Wolf. \n \nA singular classic, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death\n

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PUSHKIN PRESS CLASSICS

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9781805330233

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1

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