In Cold and Gold
14 hrs. 26 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Leonid Andreyev
Author
Leonid Andreyev
Narrator
Andrey Panshin
Narrator
Andrey Panshin
Description
In early, almost autobiographical sketches, you can already discern Andreev’s future themes and character types, and the poverty and everyday life of the Oryol Pushkarnya settlement are rendered with almost tangible authenticity.
Leonid Andreev (1871–1919) is known as the author of “Bargamot and Garaska,” “Judas Iscariot,” “Red Laughter,” “The Life of Vasily of Fiveysk,” and another dozen novellas, stories, and plays. But that is only the tip of the iceberg—just a small part of his literary legacy. In the volume compiled by Roman Senchin, early and little-known stories by Andreev are gathered—stories he himself did not include in reprints, yet carefully preserved in his archive.
“In this book, you can see the future famous writer, who already felt his themes, found his language, his character types, but had not yet learned how to write properly—and that is why in many of the stories there is quite a bit of precious ‘scrap’ scattered about.
Many texts are extremely autobiographical, written almost from life. Youthful love, poverty, drunkenness, gymnasium students, college students, residents of the Oryol Pushkarnya settlement—these are truly living characters; you can hear their speech. “I simply can’t invent completely,” the young Andreev complained. Later he learned—but that’s a completely different story…” (Roman Senchin).
Leonid Andreev (1871–1919) is known as the author of “Bargamot and Garaska,” “Judas Iscariot,” “Red Laughter,” “The Life of Vasily of Fiveysk,” and another dozen novellas, stories, and plays. But that is only the tip of the iceberg—just a small part of his literary legacy. In the volume compiled by Roman Senchin, early and little-known stories by Andreev are gathered—stories he himself did not include in reprints, yet carefully preserved in his archive.
“In this book, you can see the future famous writer, who already felt his themes, found his language, his character types, but had not yet learned how to write properly—and that is why in many of the stories there is quite a bit of precious ‘scrap’ scattered about.
Many texts are extremely autobiographical, written almost from life. Youthful love, poverty, drunkenness, gymnasium students, college students, residents of the Oryol Pushkarnya settlement—these are truly living characters; you can hear their speech. “I simply can’t invent completely,” the young Andreev complained. Later he learned—but that’s a completely different story…” (Roman Senchin).
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