Night Roads

Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) — a Russian émigré writer, who was placed by his contemporaries in the same league as Vladimir Nabokov and Marcel Proust. Gazdanov's work became known in his homeland only years after his death, at the end of the 20th century. Like the author, the hero of the novel "Night Roads" is a Russian émigré who works as a taxi driver in Paris. He drives through the night city and becomes an involuntary confessor for his passengers. Drunken aristocrats, desperate prostitutes, lost souls — all of them leave fragments of their stories in his memory.