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Sanine

First published: 1907
Pages: 272

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Few Russian novels caused as much scandal as this one when it appeared in 1907. Written in the disillusioned years after the failed 1905 revolution, Mikhail Artsybashev's story follows Vladimir Sanine, a young man who has thrown off religion, duty, and conventional morality in favor of a frank pursuit of pleasure and personal freedom. Around him, friends and family wrestle with idealism, despair, and desire, and several are destroyed by the collision. Denounced as explicit and banned in several countries, the book became a byword for a generation's retreat from politics into individualism and the senses.

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Mikhail Artsybashev

Mikhail Artsybashev (1878-1927) was a Russian writer and dramatist known for a bleak, individualist strain of fiction. His novel Sanine made him internationally notorious and set off fierce debate about morality and nihilism. An opponent of the Bolsheviks, he emigrated to Warsaw, where he died.

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