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008 081105s2009 ilu 000 1 eng c
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020 $a9780810125582 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0810125587 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPG3476.G39$bN613 2009
082 04 $a891.734$222
100 1 $aGazdanov, Gaito.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83048632
240 10 $aNochnye dorogi.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009115779
245 10 $aNight roads :$ba novel /$cGaito Gazdanov ; translated from the Russian by Justin Doherty ; introduction by Laszlo Dienes.
260 $aEvanston, Ill. :$bNorthwestern University Press,$c2009.
300 $axxiv, 244 pages ;$c20 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aEuropean classics
500 $a"Published in French in 1991 under the title Chemins nocturnes."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 1 $a"Drawing together episodes of rich atmosphere, this novel is as deep and brooding as the Paris nights that serve as its backdrop. Russian writer Gaito Gazdanov arrived in Paris, as so many did, between the wars and would go on, with this fourth novel, to give readers a crisp rendering of a living city changing beneath its people's feet." "Night Roads is loosely based on the author's experiences as a cab driver in those disorienting, often brutal years, and the narrator moves from episode to episode, holding court with many but sharing his mind with only a few. His companions are drawn straight out of the Parisian past: the legendary courtesan Jeanne Raldi, now in her later days, and an alcoholic philosopher who goes by the name of Plato. Along the way, the driver picks up other characters, such as the dull thinker who takes on the question of the meaning of life only to be driven insane. The dark humor of that young man's failure against the narrator's authentic, personal explorations of the same subject is captured in this first English translation."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aParis (France)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109262
700 1 $aDoherty, Justin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94052985
830 0 $aEuropean classics (Evanston, Ill.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93120770
852 00 $bglx$hPG3476.G39$iN613 2009