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Leonid Andreyev probes the pathology of war and to tear, as from its entrails, neither glory nor glamour nor endurance, nor even crime, but the last grim secret of all — madness.
Others have shown the self-conscious heroes and the self-conscious victims of war. Andreyev has depicted those in whose hearts all motive power has long died away. The outraged puppets of The Red Laugh are no longer the all-enduring, inarticulate peasants of Count Tolstoy; they are no longer human cogs in a vast and impersonal machine, but rather its torn and mutilated fragments, the mere debris and slag of war. Human nature has given way beneath the ruthless and inscrutable strain, and the gibbering of the maniac reflects the long-concealed insanity of war. Old symbols of flags and trophies are forgotten in this last hideousness of reality. Forgotten are the healing tears of self-sacrifice and the quiet pride of dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, and only the grin of fear responds to the old challenges of glory. The corpses are endowed with a new horror, and through their putrescence there echoes endlessly the sob of the shambles — the Red Laugh of War: "We looked round: behind us on the floor lay a naked, light pink body, its head thrown back. And instantly at its side there appeared a second, and a third. And the earth threw them up one after the other, and soon the orderly rows of light pink bodies filled all the rooms."
Andreyev's impressionism verges again and again on the monstrous, but so long as the pathology, as opposed to the physiology, of war, has a place in fiction, his strange novel on the Manchurian Campaign demands attention. For it was not for Tolstoy, the moralist, who reasoned about it, but for Andreyev, who caught it as in a nightmare, to reveal in its last nudity the final outrage of war.
Others have shown the self-conscious heroes and the self-conscious victims of war. Andreyev has depicted those in whose hearts all motive power has long died away. The outraged puppets of The Red Laugh are no longer the all-enduring, inarticulate peasants of Count Tolstoy; they are no longer human cogs in a vast and impersonal machine, but rather its torn and mutilated fragments, the mere debris and slag of war. Human nature has given way beneath the ruthless and inscrutable strain, and the gibbering of the maniac reflects the long-concealed insanity of war. Old symbols of flags and trophies are forgotten in this last hideousness of reality. Forgotten are the healing tears of self-sacrifice and the quiet pride of dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, and only the grin of fear responds to the old challenges of glory. The corpses are endowed with a new horror, and through their putrescence there echoes endlessly the sob of the shambles — the Red Laugh of War: "We looked round: behind us on the floor lay a naked, light pink body, its head thrown back. And instantly at its side there appeared a second, and a third. And the earth threw them up one after the other, and soon the orderly rows of light pink bodies filled all the rooms."
Andreyev's impressionism verges again and again on the monstrous, but so long as the pathology, as opposed to the physiology, of war, has a place in fiction, his strange novel on the Manchurian Campaign demands attention. For it was not for Tolstoy, the moralist, who reasoned about it, but for Andreyev, who caught it as in a nightmare, to reveal in its last nudity the final outrage of war.
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- ÉditeurDedalus Ltd
- Date d'édition1990
- ISBN 10 0946626413
- ISBN 13 9780946626410
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Red Laugh was written in 1904 during the uncertain period following Russia's ignominious defeat at the hands of the Japanese It is the feverish and fragmentary monologue of a Russian officer, overcome by the horror of man's inhumanity and driven to seek refuge in insanity.Although self-consciously modern and sensational in style The Red Laugh has a disturbing and prophetic power which established Andreyev's reputation as a major European writer. 'I want to be the apostle of self-destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me and to kill themselves.' Leonid Andreyev AUTHOR: Between the two Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 Leonid Andreyev was without a doubt the foremost writer in Russia. His name was always spoken with veneration, in mysterious whispers, as a grim portentous magician who descended into the ultimate depths of the nether side of life and fathomed the beauty and tragedy of the struggle. Born Leonid Nickolayevitch in the province of Oryol, in 1871, he studied law at the University of Moscow. Those were the days of suffering and starvation; he gazed into the abyss of sorrow and despair. In January 1894 he made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by shooting, and then was forced by the authorities to severe penitence, which augmented the natural morbidness of his temperament. As a lawyer his career was short-lived, and he soon abandoned it for literature, beginning as a police-court reporter on the Moscow Courier. In 1902 he published the short story In The Fog, which for the first time brought him universal recognition. He was imprisoned during the revolution of 1905, together with Maxim Gorky, on political charges. Such are the few significant details of his personal life, for the true Andreyev is entirely in his stories and plays. A Russian Army officer fighting in Manchuria in 1904, returns home physically and mentally crippled by the war. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780946626410
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