Leonid Andreyev: 3 books

Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in 1871. After his father's death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both Petrograd and Moscow Universities, graduating in Law in 1897. During this period he endured great hardship—often even actual hunger—and was the victim...

In “Diary of Satan” Andreyev summed up his boundless disillusionment in an absorbing satire on human life. Fearlessly and mercilessly he hurled the falsehoods and hypocrisies into the face of life. He portrayed Satan coming to this earth to amuse himself and play. Having assumed the form of an...

Novela que se desarrolla en un sanatorio ruso, en donde el ambiente resulta bastante tranquilo. Los pacientes se ven envueltos de esta calma y parecen darse cuenta del camino de sus vidas, de la locura que los va comiendo.