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Perhaps the most scandalous and controversial story of the beginning of the 20th century, "Yama" Alexander Kuprin (1870-1938) to this day causes numerous discussions. What is it - a slap in the face of a modern society ", as K. Chukovsky wrote, or" pornographic fantasies" of a corrupted author? "Idealization of the image of a prostitute" or the desire to most reliably convey the truth of the life from which readers reject? Be that as it may, before us is an exciting, acute reading, proposal to see with our own eyes not only the fate of a public woman of the 1900s, but also a holistic picture of the morals of the whole of Russia on the eve of the First World War.

Enjoying article by Elena Pogorelyny

Elena Alekseevna is a poet, a poet, a literary critic. The scope of scientific interests is Russian poetry of the XX -XXI centuries, modern Russian literature, age psychology and pedagogy. School and university teacher, editor of the modern department in the journal "Questions of Literature"