Night Roads

“Night Roads” is one of Gazdanov’s best-known novels — written in 1941 and published in 1952.
Gazdanov’s prose is distinguished by a combination of external laconicism and inner depth, “the subtlest expression of thoughts and movements of the soul — through faultless rhythm, intonation, the purest, transparent, resonant magnificent Russian language.”
Gaito Ivanovich Gazdanov, a Russian writer virtually unknown in his homeland until the 1990s, is today gradually gaining fame as one of the finest Russian prose writers of the 20th century.