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Тени утра

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Широкая, более того - скандальная известность Михаила Петровича Арцыбашева (1878-1927) начались с публикации его романа "Санин" (1907). Многие критики восприняли роман как пропаганду аморализма. Нынешний читатель убедится, что эти претензии вряд ли справедливы. Ярко и психологически убедительно писатель рисует образы молодых людей той поры, их настроения и нравы.
В сборник вошли также повести и рассказы, воссоздающие атмосферу 900-х годов: "Тени утра", "Pеволюционер", "Кровавое пятно" и др.

560 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1905

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Mikhail Artsybashev

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Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаил Петрович Арцыбашев) was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the great grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and the father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator.

Artsybashev was born in Khutor Dubroslavovka, Akhtyrka Uezd, Kharkov Gubernia (currently Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). His father was a small landowner and a former officer. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was only 3 years old. He attended school in Okhtyrka until the age of 16. From 1895 to 1897 he was an office worker. He studied at the Kharkov School of Drawing and Art (1897–1898). During this time he lived in poverty, and was often unable to buy art supplies. In 1897 he attempted suicide. In 1898 he married Anna Vasilyevna Kobushko, with whom he had his son Boris. The couple separated in 1900.

In 1898 he relocated to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as a freelance journalist, and published humorous stories. In 1901 he was expelled from the city for taking part in a demonstration. He wrote his first important work of fiction, the story Pasha Tumanov in 1901, but was unable to publish it until 1905 due to its being banned by the censor.

He considered his novel The Death of Ivan Lande (1904) to be his best work, but his major success was the novel Sanin (1907), which scandalized his Russian readers and was prohibited in many countries. He wrote Sanin in 1903, but was unable to publish it until 1907, again due to censorship. The protagonist of the novel ignores all social conventions and specializes in seducing virgin country girls. In one notorious scene, a girl tries to wash embarrassing white stains off her dress after sexual intercourse with Sanin. The novel was written under the influence of the philosophy of Max Stirner, and was meant to expound the principles of Individualist anarchism.

He moved to Moscow in 1912. In 1917-18 he published his anti-Bolshevik work Notes of a Writer. In 1923 Artzybashev was granted Polish citizenship and emigrated to Poland, where he edited the newspaper For Liberty! (За свободу!). He was known as an irreconcilable enemy of the Bolshevik regime, and Soviet critics dubbed the novels of his followers saninstvo and artsybashevchina (both terms are considered derogatory). He died in Warsaw on March 3, 1927.

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March 7, 2016
Когда я читаю Арцыбашева, отчаянная мысль пульсирует в моем мозгу: "Вот так жить не надо!" Герои его все униженные, несчастные, от незнания и непонимания себя совершающие какие-то дикие поступки. Зачем? 

Жила-была прекрасная чистая умненькая Лизонька. И все у неё было хорошо: и родители любящие, и кавалер порядочный, влюблённый до одурения, и умела Лизонька наслаждаться тихой провинциальной средой, и жить бы ей размеренной семейной жизнью, рожать детишек, так нет, поверила какому-то восторженному дураку, что, мол, это не жизнь, а прозябание, а настоящая жизнь возможна только в Петербурге, где учеба, театры, революционеры. Что, мол, пользу надо приносить народу. Да только предназначение у всех разное, и домашним девочкам нечего делать на сходках, и с жестокими вульгарными парнями встречаться не надо, и жить надо там, где душа поёт, а не в промозглом чужом городе, и заниматься любимым делом, а не тем, что правильно с точки зрения постороннего человека. Сгорела девочка зазря, эх...

А написано хорошо, люблю я стиль Арцыбашева.
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