The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a century

"This psychological novel takes stock of death, war, violence and the guilt that undergirds it all." -- The New York Times Book Review

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.

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

About the author

GAITO GAZDANOV (1903-1971) joined the White Army aged just sixteen and fought in the Russian Civil War. Exiled in Paris from the 1920s onwards, he eventually became a nocturnal taxi-driver and gained prominence on the literary scene as a novelist, essayist, critic and short-story writer. The Spectre of Alexander Wolf, The Beggar and Other Stories, The Buddha's Return and The Flight are also published by Pushkin Press.

Product details

• Authors: Gaito Gazdanov, Gaito (Author) Gazdanov, Gazdanov Gaito
• Assisted by: Brian Karetnyk (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781805330233
• ISBN: 978-1-80533-023-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Pushkin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary