{"product_id":"the-spectre-of-alexander-wolf-pushkin-collection","title":"The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (Pushkin Collection)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf all my memories  of all my lifes innumerable sensations  the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed. A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier  long ago - from the victims point of view. Its a story that should not exist  and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for the 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. Gaito Gazdanov (Georgi Ivanovich Gazdanov  1903-1971)  son of an Ossetian forester  was born in St Petersburg and brought up in Siberia and Ukraine  he joined Baron Wrangels White Army in 1919 aged just sixteen  and fought in the Russian Civil War until the Armys evacuation from the Krimea in 1920. After a brief sojourn in Gallipoli and Contantinople (where he completed secondary school)  he moved to Paris  where he spent eight years variously working as a docker  washing locomotives  and in the Citron factory. During periods of unemployment  he slept on park benches or in the Mtro. In 1928  he became a taxi driver  working nights  which enabled him to write and to attend lectures at the Sorbonne during the day. His first stories began appearing in 1926  in Russian migr periodicals  and he soon became part of the literary scene. In 1929 he published An Evening with Claire  which was acclaimed by  among others  Maxim Gorki and the great critic Vladislav Khodasevich. He died in Munich in 1971  and is buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Genevive-des-Bois near Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948999569461,"sku":"ByrdShop_1782270086","price":61.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781782270089_0c761b8d-83dd-4499-81d9-f86523e9b95e.jpg?v=1770583644","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-spectre-of-alexander-wolf-pushkin-collection","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}