Moloch

2 hrs. 50 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Alexander Kuprin

Narrator Lyubov Koneva

Description

Alexander Kuprin’s novella “Moloch” is a vivid account of the smallness of a person before the iron grip of progress—about the collision between conscience and capital, both on the level of one life and on the level of an entire people. The peculiarity of this story is that all events—from descriptions of capitalist relations, from workers’ protest to the personal catastrophe—are conveyed through the perception of an intelligent, sensitive, and tender person.