About this book
Overview
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 psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death
"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 psychological thriller and existential inquiry into guilt and redemption, coincidence and fate, love and death
