The Ideal

2 hrs. 12 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Elena Gan

Narrator Valentina Savenko

Description

In Elena Gan’s novella “The Ideal,” the world of high society of that time is portrayed skillfully—the “great world,” where bored, jaded nobles and prominent people spin in endless circles, starving for something more. All their pursuits are really just reflections of their feelings. The heroine falls in love with a fashionable writer, Anatoly; she reads him through his words, watches his plays, and creates a sort of ideal for herself. Does he match the ideal lovingly built by her imagination?!