Возвращение Будды. Эвелина и ее друзья. Великий музыкант

by Gaito Gazdanov

Гайто (Георгий Иванович) Газданов — русский писатель, литературный критик. Родился в 1903 году в Петербурге. Во время Гражданской войны воевал в составе Добровольческой армии, в 1920 году эмигрировал за границу, учился в Сорбонне. Его первый и самый популярный роман «Вечер у Клэр» был опубликован в 1929 году в Париже. Еще совсем недавно имя Гайто Газданова было мало знакомо русскому читателю. На родине, в России, его произведения стали издаваться только в 90-е годы XX века. Сегодня можно говорить о том, что это один из самых ярких, одаренных и незаслуженно забытых писателей русской зарубежной литературы.

579 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2016

About the author

Gaito Gazdanov (Russian: Гайто Газданов; Ossetian: Гæздæнты Бæппийы фырт Гайто) (1903–1971) was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian extraction. He was born in Saint Petersburg but was brought up in Siberia and Ukraine, where his father worked as a forester. He took part in the Russian Civil War on the side of Wrangel's White Army. In 1920 he left Russia and settled in Paris, where he was employed in the Renault factories. Gazdanov's first novel — An Evening with Claire (1930) — won accolades from Maxim Gorky and Vladislav Khodasevich, who noted his indebtedness to Marcel Proust. On the strength of his first short stories, Gazdanov was decried by critics as one of the most gifted writers to begin his career in emigration.
Gazdanov's mature work was produced after World War II. His mastery of criminal plots and understanding of psychological detail are in full evidence in his two most popular novels, The Specter of Alexander Wolf and The Return of the Buddha, whose English translations appeared in 1950 and 1951. The writer "excels in creating characters and plots in which cynicism and despair remain in precarious yet convincing balance with a courageous acceptance of life and even a certain joie de vivre." In 1953, Gazdanov joined the Radio Liberty, where he hosted a program about Russian literature until his death.