The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

Literature

Author: Gaito Gazdanov

“Among all my recollections, among all the numberless sensations of life, the memory of the one murder that I had committed weighed heaviest on my mind …”,,On a searing hot day in 1919, a young Russian soldier shoots another in self-defence. As the other man lies dying, the young soldier takes his horse and rides away. Years later, as a grown man in Paris whose life is sti….Read More

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