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Mikhail Artsybashev was born in the Ukraine, Oct. 18, 1878.
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Sanin: A Novel
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"It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those at the time of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Some praised the novel far more than it deserved, others complained bitterly that it was a defamation of youth. I may, however, without exaggeration assert that no one in Russia took the trouble to fathom the ideas of the novel. The eulogies and condemnations are equally one-sided." Thus did Mikhail Artsybashev (18781927), whose novels and short stories are suffused with themes of sex, suicide, and murder, describe the reaction to publication in 1907 of Sanin, his second novel. The work provoked heated debates among the Russian reading public, and the journal in which it was published serially was soon closed down by the authorities. The hero of Artsybashev's novel exhibits a set of new values to be contrasted with the morality of the older Russian intelligentsia. Sanin is an attractive, clever, powerful, life-loving man who is, at the same time, an amoral and carnal animal, bored both by politics and by religion. During the novel he lusts after his own sister, but defends her when she is betrayed by an arrogant officer; he deflowers an innocent-but-willing virgin; and encourages a Jewish friend to end his self-doubts by committing suicide. Sanin's extreme individualism greatly appealed to young people in Russia during the twilight years of the Romanov regime. "Saninism" was marked by sensualism, self-gratification, and self-destruction?and gained in credibility in an atmosphere of moral and spiritual despondency. Artybashev drew upon a wide range of sources for his inspiration?Sanin owes debts to Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Nietzsche's notion of the "superman," and the work of the individualist anarchist philosopher Johann Kaspar Schmidt. Michael R. Katz's translation of this controversial novel is the first into English in almost seventy years. "Russian pornography is not plain pornography such as the French and Germans produce, but pornography with ideas."?Kornei Chukovsky "Those who saw in the much discussed novel only suggestive scenes, shocking their morality or titillating their senses, were mistaken; it was, as usual in Russia, a book with a message, and Sanin slept with all his mistresses to prove a thesis rather than to obey a natural urge."?Marc Slonim
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Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev
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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).
Career
His first short story, Pasha Tumanov, was published in 1901. Like many other works of the realistic school, his writings show Russian life frankly and even brutally. After the failure of the Revolution of 1905, Artsybashev's works became extremely pessimistic and cynical. In 1907 he published his first substantial novel, Sanin, which gained him a national reputation. Although deep and vividly colored, it degenerates into a quite naked exhibit of a society in dissolution, a morbidly exaggerated picture of crime and sexual folly. Among Artsybashev's important novels and plays are Rabotchi Shevyrev ("Worker Shevyrev"), Poslednei Tcherty ("At the Extreme Limit"), Revnost ("Jealousy"), and Voyna ("War"). For having attempted to discredit revolutionary ardor by acknowledging revolutionary frustration in some of his writings, Artsybashev was expelled from Russia in 1923 by the Soviet government. His novels, in many instances, were confiscated as immoral. He died in Warsaw on Mar. 3, 1927. He was the father of Boris Artzybasheff, Russo-American illustrator and writer.
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Sanin: A Novel
( "It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those...)
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War; a Play in Four Acts
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
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Milyone. : roman ; a Gli 1900 Hardcover
(Lang:- yid,rus, Pages 202. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)
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Dikie. Povest'..
(Artsybashev Mikhail. - Dikie. Povest'.. Publisher: Izd.I....)
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Sanin: A Novel
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In 1898 he married Anna Vasilyevna Kobushko, with whom he had his son Boris. The couple separated in 1900.
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