Prose

14 hrs. 12 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Apollon Grigoryev

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

“A Man of the Future” is the first part of a distinctive trilogy about Vitalin.

…One person had no specific goal and walked along Nevsky Avenue simply because it was Nevsky Avenue… “He moved,” I said, “because there was something involuntary in his way of walking; without consciousness and without purpose he went, as if obeying some external force—hunched over, as if under the weight, slowly, like a day laborer who goes to work…

In the essay “The Great Tragic Actor” an impression from the performance of the outstanding Italian artist Salvini is described—who in the mid-19th century was still little known.

Contents:
A Man of the Future
The Meeting
The Performance
Arseny Vitalin
Notes of a Sophist
A Wretched Morning
An Imaginary Journal, its Editor and His Employees
After the Performance
Note
A Man of an Era
Vialin’s Notes
A Poet in Home Life
Ophelia. One of Vitalin’s Memories
Vialin’s Story
The Diary of a Daydreamer
Conclusion
One of Many
A Woman’s Love
Antosha
The Creation of a Woman
The Creation of a Woman
Another of Many
Correspondence of Different People
Epilogue
The Great Tragic Actor