William Alexander Gerhardie fue un novelista y dramaturgo anglo-ruso, reconocido como uno de los novelistas ingleses más aclamados de la década de 1920. Su escritura a menudo se basó en sus experiencias en Rusia y sus visitas infantiles a la Rusia prerrevolucionaria, con un estilo significativamente influenciado por el enfoque tragicómico de autores rusos como Chéjov. Las novelas de Gerhardie, como "Futility" y "The Polyglots", son notables por su exploración de temas como la 'espera' y su sentido compartido de nihilismo cómico. Aunque su prominencia disminuyó después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su distintiva voz literaria y su impacto en la literatura inglesa continúan siendo apreciados, y sus obras experimentan un resurgimiento de interés.
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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 love with the daughter of a hilariously dysfunctional family--all played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching back and forth outside the parlor window. Part British romantic comedy, part Russian social realism, and with a large cast of memorable characters, this astoundingly funny and poignant novel is the tale of people persisting in love and hope despite the odds.
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene both acknowledged the influence of this remarkable autobiographical novel.