The Pen

1 hr. 23 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Nikolai Leskov

Description

“Dostoevsky has a character—an officer’s orderly—who divided the world into two unequal parts: to one he assigned ‘himself and his master,’ and to the other—‘all the other scum.’ Such a division looks absurd and funny, but in our society there have always been those who wanted to think and act the same way—only on a much larger scale. In recent years, it seems such antics have even turned into a full-blown mania…”