Gaito Gazdanov
This work, written with the simple lyricism and psychological acuity of the early Tolstoy and Bunin struck a chord with the Ã©migrÃ©s of the 1930s, who recognized their own feelings in those of the hero, and in a peculiar way it forms a complement to Nabokovâ€™s early novels of longing for the Russian childhood left behind forever in a country which no longer existed.,An Evening with Claire, was hailed as a major literary event in Russian Ã©migrÃ© circles when it was first published in Paris in 1930. Its author, Gaito Gazdanov, was compared to the young Nabokov, as well as to Proust and Bunin.
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An Evening with Claire