Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)
Author of The Seven Who Were Hanged
About the Author
Leonid Andreyev became one of the most popular writers of the first decade of the twentieth century because of his ability to combine modernist and realist techniques and his willingness to break taboos of theme. His subjects included topics, such as venereal disease, and various abnormalities. His show more works caused a scandal but won their author a wide following. In the aftermath of 1905, Andreyev dealt with the defeated revolutionaries' moral and psychological dilemmas and with the intelligentsia as a whole, while in The Tale of the Seven Who Were Hanged (1909), he produced a stunning condemnation of the death penalty. Andreyev had a talent for depicting the dark, irrational forces in life within existential dilemmas. However, his pessimism and mysticism are sometimes undercut by a blatant tugging on the heartstrings and a lack of personal engagement and authenticity. Andreyev died in 1919. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Leonid Andreyev
Leonid Andreyev : Photographs by a Russian Writer. An Undiscovered Portrait of Pre-Revolutionary Russia (1989) 25 copies
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120 authors and 1000 stories in one volume (2020) 5 copies
Savra. The Life of (a?) Man 3 copies
Rozhovor uprostred noci 3 copies
De syv hengte 3 copies
Cuentos escogidos 3 copies
Selected Short Fiction of Leonid Andreyev: The Seven Who Were Hanged, Red Laugh, The Dilemma, Lazarus, Life of Father… (2020) 2 copies
Un hombre original 2 copies
Relatos del alma rusa 2 copies
Jutustused 2 copies
Černé masky 2 copies
Los espectros 2 copies
Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100 authors & 200 stories) (Halloween… (2018) 2 copies
Yedi Asilmislarin Hikayesi 2 copies
Cuentos escogidos 2 copies
Рассказ о семи повешенных 2 copies
C'était... 2 copies
Samson in Chains 2 copies
The Greater Omnibus of Private Books — Contributor — 2 copies
Cuentos 2 copies
Dybet og andre noveller 2 copies
Novelle e drammi 2 copies
Жили-были 1 copy
Том 3: Пьесы 1 copy
Das Joch des Krieges Roman 1 copy
Love, Faith, And Hope 1 copy
Η ζωή ενός φτωχού υπαλλήλου 1 copy
El capitan Kablukov 1 copy
Gaudeamus 1 copy
Cuentos extranjeros 1 copy
Том 1: Рассказы и повести 1 copy
Сочиненiя 1 copy
Том 5: Пьесы 1 copy
Рассказы 1 copy
Kusaka 1 copy
Dies i r ae 1 copy
Том 2: Рассказы и повести 1 copy
DIARIO DE UN MÉDICO LOCO 1 copy
Прекрасные сабинянки 1 copy
Повести и рассказы 1 copy
Пьесы 1 copy
Izbrannoe 1 copy
Tsvetok pod nogoiu 1 copy
The Man Who Found The Truth 1 copy
He: An Unknown's Story 1 copy
The Dear Departing 1 copy
Nouvelles 1 copy
Ben-Tobith [short story] 1 copy
The Waltz of the Dogs 1 copy
Professor Storit︠s︡yn 1 copy
To The Stars 1 copy
Lazarus {Short story} 1 copy
Kurban 1 copy
Jurnalul Satanei 1 copy
Vers les étoiles 1 copy
Povídka o sedmi oběšených 1 copy
SETE ENFORCADOS, OS 1 copy
De opstandige dorpspriester 1 copy
Jours de colère 1 copy
I Taagen og andre Noveller 1 copy
VALDA NOVELLER 1 copy
Balada o siedmich obesených 1 copy
Dan gneva 1 copy
El Pope 1 copy
Le gouffre 1 copy
Silence 1 copy
Había una vez-- 1 copy
Dies Irae y otros cuentos 1 copy
La risa roja Novelas 1 copy
Novelle e drammi 1 copy
Śmierć Gulliwera : nowele 1 copy
Associated Works
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contributor — 522 copies
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (2007) — Contributor — 99 copies
He Who Gets Slapped [1924 film] — Original play — 9 copies
Performing Arts Journal: 16 (Volume VI / Number 1) — Contributor — 1 copy
A Caravan of Music Stories by the World's Great Authors — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Andreyev, Leonid
- Legal name
- Andreev, Leonid Nikolaevich
Андреев, Леонид Николаевич - Other names
- Andreïev, Leonid Nikolaïevitch
- Birthdate
- 1871-08-21
- Date of death
- 1919-09-12
- Burial location
- Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Birthplace
- Oryol, Russian Empire
- Place of death
- Kuokkala, Finland
- Places of residence
- Oryol, Russian Empire
Moscow, Russian Empire
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Terijoki, Finland - Education
- Moscow University, Faculty of Law
- Occupations
- lawyer
legal chronicler
police-court reporter
dramatist
publicist
short story writer (show all 7)
novelist - Relationships
- Andreev, Daniel (son)
Carlisle, Olga Andreyev (granddaughter)
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Statistics
- Works
- 210
- Also by
- 33
- Members
- 1,203
- Popularity
- #21,350
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 35
- ISBNs
- 286
- Languages
- 17
- Favorited
- 12
The Abyss peels back layers of socially constructed high-mindedness in the male protagonist to reveal individual's capabilty for debasement. Beautiful prose depicting weather in inspired detail sets off sordid acts. The Lie examines one of author's fears, infinity: 'never did I understand so profoundly and terribly the meaning of infinity, norever realized it with such force. I felt in fear and pain that my very life was passing out in a slender ray...until I became a stranger to myself--desolated, speechless, almost dead.' Also: 'what madness it is--to be man and to seek the truth! What pain!' In Laughter, society's pain: 'Don't you feel that there's a living, suffering face behind my rediculous mask'.
Last story, The Red Laugh, also more famous, early account re war's reality: the first line reads 'Horror and madness.' Preceeded 'All Quiet On The Western Front' in depicting immediate horror and longterm madness of war. 'All were silent, as if an army of dumb people were moving, and when anyone fell down, he fell in silence;...as though these bumb men were also blind and deaf. I sutmbled and fell several times and then involuntarily opened my eyes, and all that I saw seemed a wild fiction, the terrible raving of a mad world.' Red laugh possibly = Bolshevik asendence. 'Something occured, something darkened our vision, and two regiments, belonging to the same army, facing each other at a distance of one verst, had been destroying each other for a whole hour in the full conviction that iw was the enemy they had before them' = White vs Red Armies? Foresaw Iron Curtain: 'A time will come when nobody will be able to go away from here.'… (more)