Night roads

Gaito Gazdanov belongs to the circle of Russian writers whose work was unknown in Russia for a long time. Joining the White movement after the revolution, he never returned to his homeland, sharing the fate of many Russian emigrants. Living in Paris, he worked as a dockworker, locomotive washer, laborer, and taxi driver. Gazdanov's first stories were published in the Parisian magazine "Volya Rossii," and his first novel, which immediately brought him success, was released in Paris in 1929. Early Gazdanov was compared to Proust, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, while later he was compared to Albert Camus, Julien Green, and Mario Soldati. After the war, Gazdanov worked for many years at Radio Liberty, where his programs on classical and contemporary Russian literature attracted hundreds of listeners. The novel "Night Roads" (1941) is not only an outstanding literary work but also one of the few truly truthful testimonies of real events and the spiritual history of the Russian emigration.