Man Is Damned

3 hrs. 34 min.

Language Russian

Author Vikenty Veresaev

Narrator Maria Markova

«Inside the artist there is an endless, hopeless autumn. It is as though he has to make an enormous effort to imagine that in the world there exists a joyful radiance of the sun, a pure blue sky, beckoning half-shadows of night. He painfully understands: all of this is real, but it lies somewhere unimaginably far away. The memories are faded and lifeless—as if he is looking at them through glass covered with hazy vapor. And only sometimes a bright fragment suddenly flares up in his memory—something like “a green, juicy leaf, with veins, and the sun playing on it”—and then his heart tightens with longing for the distant and unreachable…»

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