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Il romanzo è ambientato nella Russia mezza bianca e mezza rossa degli anni Venti. Dove tutto cade in pezzi, ma il protagonista, Nikolaj Vasil'evic, continua a occuparsi imperterrito delle sue miniere d'oro in Siberia e a coltivare l'"incantevole bouquet" delle sue tre figlie, diversamente irresistibili. Il che non gli impedisce di accogliere in casa una folla smisurata di amanti, parenti in vario grado delle medesime, impostori, parassiti e me...

Excerpt from Futility: A Novel on Russian ThemesThere are few novelists nowadays, I suppose, who will not readily acknowledge that, in certain most intrinsic qualities of the art, the great Russians are what Henry James once called Balzac: the masters of us all.To many readers of the western world, however, there was - there still is, despite the blinding glare which the Russian disaster has shed on the national character - a recurring sense o...

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Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg. Part British romantic comedy, part Russian social realism, this funny and poignant novel is the tale of persistance in love and hope.

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The unforgettable tale of an eccentric Belgian family through the uncertain years after WW1 and the Russian Revolution.

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A biography of the age, 1890-1940, through which the author lived.

Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius, " William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century's neglected masterpieces. It tells the story of someone very similar to Gerhardie himself: a young Englishman raised in Russia who returns to St. Petersburg and falls in l...

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Excerpt from Futility: A Novel on Russian ThemesThere are few novelists nowadays, I suppose, who will not readily acknowledge that, in certain most intrinsic qualities of the art, the great Russians are what Henry James once called Balzac: the masters of us all.To many readers of the western world, however, there was - there still is, despite the blinding glare which the Russian disaster has shed on the national character - a recurring sense o...