The Spectre of Alexander Wolf - Gaito Gazdanov Taschenbuch

A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow émigré writers rediscovered after more than half a century This psychological novel takes stock of death war violence and the guilt that undergirds it all. -- The New York Times Book Review A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist and whose author can only be a dead man. So begins the strange quest for its elusive writer: Alexander Wolf. A singular classic The Spectre of Alexander Wolf is a psychologic al thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption coincidence and fate love and death