A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov\'s fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more than half a century.
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.
Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventually became a nocturnal taxi-driver and quickly gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer, and was greatly acclaimed by Maxim Gorky, among others..
It\'s a story that should not exist, and whose author can only be a dead man.
So begins the strange quest for its 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.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globeGaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) joined the White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War.
A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov\'s fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more than half a century.
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
