The Red Laugh and the Abyss

ISBN-13: 9781554815494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020

Leonid Andreyev; Kirsten Lodge; Kirsten Lodge

Spis treści

• Introduction
• The Red Laugh
• The Abyss
  In Context
  • 'The Abyss': The Scandal
    • from Leo Tolstoy, as quoted in The Stock Exchange News (1902)
    • from Leonid Andreyev (J. Lynch), 'Moscow: The Small Details of Life,' The Courier (1902)
    • from M.P. Nevedomsky, 'On Contemporary Art. Leonid Andreyev,' God's World (1903)
    • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to the Editor of The Courier (1903)
    Leo Tolstoy's Call for Protest Against the War from Leo Tolstoy, Bethink Yourselves! (1904)
  • Fiction and Reality: Accounts of the Russo-Japanese War
    • Contemporary Newspaper Reports
      • from V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, The Russian Word (10 January 1904)
      • from V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, The Russian Word (11 January 1904)
      • from P. Krasnov, The Russian Invalid (9 July 1904)
      • from Anonymous, The Russian Word (5 October 1904)
      • from Vikenty Veresaev, In The War: Memoirs of V. Veresaev (1917)
      • Degeneration on a Mass Scale
        • from Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)
        • Andreyev's Correspondence
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to Vikenty Veresaev, July 1904
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to Maxim Gorky, 6 August 1904
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to Maxim Gorky, 6-7 November 1904
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to Maxim Gorky, 14-15 November 1904
          • from Maxim Gorky, Letter to Leonid Andreyev, 16-17 November 1904
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to Maxim Gorky, 17-18 November 1904
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to Leo Tolstoy, 16 November 1904
          • from Leo Tolstoy, Letter to Leonid Andreyev, 17 November 1904
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to O. Dymov, 28 January 1905
          • from Leonid Andreyev, Letter to M.P. Nevedomsky, date unknown
          • Responses to The Red Laugh by Prominent Symbolists
            • from Vyacheslav Ivanov, 'On The Red Laugh and ‘Proper Madness,''Vesy [The Scales] (1905)
            • from Andrei Bely, 'Apocalypse in Russian Poetry' (1905)
            • Images
              • Depictions of War in Nineteenth-Century Art
              • Propaganda Posters from the Russo-Japanese War
              • Expressionist Paintings by Edvard Munch
              • Other images