The Dark

Description

The Dark is a tale of a frantic youthful man, an extremist and anarchist, attempting to evade detention by being protected in a bordello. The tale centers on his budding intimacy with a sexually promiscuous woman in the bordello and the intrinsic collision which afflicts him. The novelist, Leonid Andreyev, an praiseworthy Russian librettist and author of short stories, was distinguished for the obscurity in his opuses.

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev is known as a father of Expressionism in Russian literary classics. He is comprehended as the very proficient and successful exemplars of the Silver Age phase. Leonid’s composition coalesces the essential features of realist, naturalist, and symbolist faculties in both fiction and nonfiction.

He was raised in Oryol, Russia to a middleclass family, Leonid first took up legal studies in Moscow and in Saint Petersburg. His mother came from an ancient Polish gentry, although his family was poverty stricken, he also held to be of Ukrainian and Finnish origin. He was a police-court correspondent for a Moscow daily, doing the custom of his good vocation without enticing a precise deliberation. He later composed poems and created some exertions to replicate it but was turned down by many issuers. His first short tale, Bargamot and Garaska was printed in the Kurier newspaper in Moscow. This tale became an interest of Maxim Gorky who suggested that Leonid devote on his writing career. Leonid finally quitted his legal profession and quickly became renowned in the field of literature, and the two authors became pals for a long time. Because of Maxim, Leonid was associated with the Moscow Sreda literary circle, and printed numerous books in Maxim’s Znanie selections. Leonid’s first set of short tales and short fictional stories instantly sold a quarter-million replication and achieved literary stardom in Russia.
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