Sanin

15 hrs. 5 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Artsybashev

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

“Sanin” is one of Mikhail Artsybashev’s most notorious “immoral” novels in Russia and abroad, written in 1907. Let us recall that this was the time of the defeat of the first Russian Revolution, when a significant part of the bourgeois intelligentsia, disillusioned with it, began to seek meaning in “earthly pleasures.”
“Sanin” (1907) brought Mikhail Artsybashev scandalous fame. The book was considered immoral not only in Russia but abroad as well. The protest against conventions and prejudices that deprive a person of freedom was not to the liking of many adherents of “eternal values.” A hundred years after its creation, this novel no longer seems so provocative. However, Vladimir Sanin’s bold ideas, which exploded the measured life of a provincial town, and the passion and love to which the characters surrender without looking back, still attract thousands of new admirers today.