In a desperate situation

Author: (Russian) Aleksei Zerbyazhev, translated by Wang Xietang
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: A classic of Russian literature. "Aleksei Zerbyazhev is one of the typical representatives of the emerging literary movement in Russia, belonging to the realism school, with profound expression reaching the extreme among his peers." "Aleksei Zerbyazhev's works are pessimistic and ego-centric, often filled with a sense of flesh. But we must understand that he merely depicts reality, though it is subjective, he does not advocate or incite; his style is not because of 'realism reaching its peak and evolving into solipsism,' but simply a portrait of the era; we must not forget that he is a writer who depicts modern life." — Lu Xun
Sologub, Kuprin, Andreyev, and Zerbyazhev are all great figures of Russia's "Silver Age." Deep, pure, dark, or passionate, they stand out in the world literary arena with their unique styles. Their representative works—The Legend of Creation, The Cadets, The Diary of Satan, and The Extremes—are published in Chinese for the first time. In terms of life experience, emotional experience, the creativity of the works, and their significance, Russian culture as a whole can be hailed as the "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" of world literature. For us, this series of books is like several virgin peaks. In the novels of Mikhail Petrovich Zerbyazhev, few are without melancholic reflections on death and misfortune. Death is almost the protagonist in his long and medium-length novels. Zerbyazhev's contemporaries read something of a pathological deviation from norms in his works.