Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich, 1871-1919 / 2008-10-02 00:00:00

EBOOK SAVVA AND THE LIFE OF MAN ***


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THE MODERN DRAMA SERIES
EDITED BY EDWIN BJOeRKMAN

SAVVA
THE LIFE OF MAN
BY LEONID ANDREYEV


SAVVA
THE LIFE OF MAN

TWO PLAYS BY
LEONID ANDREYEV

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
THOMAS SELTZER

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND
COMPANY
1920

1914,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_This edition is authorized by Leonid Andreyev, who has
selected the plays included in it._
_All Dramatic rights reserved by
Edwin Bjoerkman_

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PLAYS BY LEONID ANDREYEV
SAVVA
THE LIFE OF MAN


INTRODUCTION

For the last twenty years Leonid Andreyev and Maxim Gorky have
by turns occupied the centre of the stage of Russian literature.
Prophetic vision is no longer required for an estimate of their
permanent contribution to the intellectual and literary development
of Russia. It represents the highest ideal expression of a period
in Russian history that was pregnant with stirring and far-reaching
events--the period of revolution and counter-revolution. It was a
period when Russian society passed from mood to mood at an extremely
rapid tempo: from energetic aggressiveness, exultation, high hope,
and confident trust in the triumph of the people's cause to apathetic
inaction, gloom, despair, frivolity, and religious mysticism.
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