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The Short Fiction of Leonid Andreyev

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00 - Dedication, Foreword and Introduction
9:01
01 - At One O'Clock, Your Excellency!
17:42
02 - Condemned to be Hanged
15:01
03 - Why Should I be Hanged?
30:07
04 - We Come from Oryol
17:20
05 - Kiss - And Say Nothing
18:47
06 - The Hours are Rushing
4:16
07 - There is no Death
20:25
08 - There is Death as well as Life
13:59
09 - Dreadful Solitude
14:31
10 - The Walls are Falling
13:30
11 - On the Way to the Scaffold
42:35

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Leonid Andreyev ranks among the darkest voices of Russia's Silver Age, and this gathering of his short fiction shows why. The stories move through prison cells, battlefields and shuttered rooms, pressing hard on fear, guilt and the nearness of death. The centrepiece, published in 1908, sends five revolutionaries and two common criminals to the gallows after a failed assassination, and Andreyev follows each of them through their final days, tracing how differently a person can meet an end they cannot avoid. Elsewhere his characters confront war, madness and the silence of a universe that offers no comfort. The mood is bleak but never numb, charged instead with a strange moral intensity.

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Leonid Andreyev

Andreyev was for a few years around 1905 the most talked-about writer in Russia, outselling Gorky, who had helped him start. His best-known novella follows five revolutionaries and two ordinary criminals through their last days under sentence, and refuses to make any of them heroic.