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Gaito Gazdanov
Gaito Gazdanov

Gaito Gazdanov (Гайто Газда́нов) (1903-1971) was a Russian emigré writer of Ossetian extraction. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending His real name was Georgi Ivanovich Gazdanov (Георгий Иванович Газда́нов).

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Biography

Gazdanov was born in St. Petersburg but was brought up in Siberia and Ukraine, where his father worked as a forester. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. He took part in the Russian Civil War on the side of Wrangel's White Army. The Russian Civil War (1917–1923 was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Пётр Николаевич Врангель (Peter von Wrangel ( August 15, 1878, Zarasai, Lithuania (then The White movement (Beloie Dvijenie Белое движение whose military arm is known as the White Army (Belaia Armia Белая Армия or White Guard In 1920 he left Russia and settled in Paris, where he was employed in the Renault factories. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This is about the company for other uses see Renault (disambiguation. Later, he earned his living as a taxi driver.

Gazdanov's first novel — An Evening with Claire (1930) — won accolades from Maksim Gorky and Vladislav Khodasevich, who noted his indebtedness to Marcel Proust. Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov ( In Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в ( &ndash June 18, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (Владислав Фелицианович Ходасевич ( May 16, 1886 - June 14, 1939) was Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (maʁsɛl pʁust (10 July 1871 &ndash 18 November 1922 was a French Novelist Essayist and Critic 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. Nevertheless, his books of the 1930s are difficult to compare to Vladimir Nabokov's: they are lacking in structure, the narrative is episodic. This page is about the novelist For his father the politician see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov.

Gazdanov's mature work was produced after World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including 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. "[1]

Gazdanov's grave.
Gazdanov's grave.

In 1953, Gazdanov joined the Radio Liberty, where he hosted a program about Russian literature until his death. This article is about the radio broadcast service For the REM This article is about literature from Russia For the song by Maxïmo Park, see Our Earthly Pleasures. After nearly two decades of oblivion, more than fifty editions of his works (including a three-volume collection) were republished in post-Soviet Russia. The Ossetian artistic community, led by Valery Gergiev, had a new tombstone placed at his grave in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери Cimetiere russe017jpg|thumb|The graves of White Émigres ]] Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery, specifically the one known as Cimetière de Liers, as there are two The annual Gazdanov Readings are held to discuss his literary heritage.

Works

Novels

References

  1. ^ The Cambridge History of Russian Literature (ed. by Charles Moser). Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-521-42567-0. Page 518.

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