Small collected works

Leonid Andreev contemporaries called the sphinx of the Russian intelligentsia. And to this day, he remains one of the most mysterious authors of the Silver Age. His works, paradoxical and provocative, forced to talk about him all the reading Russia. According to Korney Chukovsky, “he loved everything huge” - large -scale topics, problems, images. The intellectual support of Andreev’s work was the works of A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, F. Dostoevsky, and the quintessence of moods is the tragedy of a lonely man who, having lost faith in God, was left alone in front of a frightening abyss. Andreev fascinates the readers, revealing before them the darkest and gloomy nooks for the human soul, the plots invented by him forever crash into memory. The real publication included the most famous stories and novels by L. Andreev, including Bargamot and Garaska, Angel, “Once upon a time”, “Thought”, “Life of Vasily Fiveo”, “Judas Vykariot”, “The Story of Seven hanged people ”and others