The Red Flower and Other Stories

In Vsevolod Garshin’s stories—“A Signal,” “The Red Flower,” “Painters,” and “Four Days”—there is both a struggle against social inequality and the torment of a particular person, as well as selflessness and philosophical depth of the soul even of the simplest soldier. Garshin’s novellas have almost no dramatic action. The entire plot revolves around the drama of thought: it is born of suffering, reveals the truth, and surprises with its power, purity, and honesty.