An Evening with Claire

8 best books like An Evening with Claire (Gaito Gazdanov): Novel with Cocaine, A School for Fools, The Petty Demon, Mumu, O Teu Rosto Será o Último, Zama, Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него, Intemperie

AuthorM. Ageyev
ISBN0810117096
A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug...
AuthorSasha Sokolov
ISBN0941423077
“Since it’s winter what kind of butterflies can you be speaking of, asks the pedagogue with mock surprise, what’s wrong – are you crazy? And you respond with unshaken dignity: in the winter one can speak only of winter lepidoptera, those which are called snow butterflies, I catch them in the...
AuthorFyodor Sologub
ISBN0882338080
The Petty Demon is one of the funniest Russian novels. It is also the most decadent of the great Russian classics, replete with naked boys, sinuous girls, and a strange mixture of beauty and perversity. The main hero, Peredonov, is as comical as he is disgusting, he is at once a victim, a monster, a silly...
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN1425469272
Mumu (Russian: «Муму») is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1854.

The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention...
O Teu Rosto Será o Último
AuthorJoão Ricardo Pedro
Prémio LeYa 2011
Tudo começa com um homem saindo de casa, armado, numa madrugada fria. Mas do que o move só saberemos quase no fim, por uma carta escrita de outro continente. Ou talvez nem aí. Parece, afinal, mais importante a história do doutor Augusto Mendes, o médico que o tratou quarenta...
Zama
AuthorAntonio Di Benedetto
ISBN9879396472
Publicada por primera vez en 1956, Zama está considerada de manera unánime como una de las grandes novelas del siglo veinte en lengua española.
Con una escritura bella y precisa, Antonio Di Benedetto narra la existencia solitaria y suspendida de Don Diego de Zama, un funcionario de la corona...
Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него
AuthorАлексей Сальников
Роман «Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него»– финалист премии «Большая книга» и «НОС».

«Пишет Сальников как, пожалуй, никто другой сегодня, а именно –...
Intemperie
AuthorJesús Carrasco
Un niño escapado de casa escucha, agazapado en el fondo de su escondrijo, los gritos de los hombres que lo buscan. Cuando la partida pasa, lo que queda ante él es una llanura infinita y árida que deberá atravesar si quiere alejarse definitivamente de aquello que le ha hecho huir. Una noche, sus pasos...
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