Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Remizov, Alexei

Titel

THE PROFANER

Ist Teil von

• The Little Devil and Other Stories, 2021, p.105-140

Ort / Verlag

New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• THIS STORY IS SET IN THE TURBULENT PERIOD OF THE AGRARIAN REVOLT OF 1905–1906. LOCAL VILLAGERS LAUNCHED ATTACKS ON THE PROVINCIAL ESTATES, LOOTING AND SETTING FIRE TO THE MANOR HOUSES. IN THE OCTOBER MANIFESTO, NICHOLAS II GRANTED SOME CIVIL LIBERTIES, WHICH WAS SEEN AS LICENSE TO APPROPRIATE LAND FROM THE GENTRY. IN THIS STORY, THE BOYS (BOTH THE SON OF THE LANDOWNER AND THE BOYS FROM THE VILLAGE) PLAY AT EXPROPRIATION, A VERSION OF COPS AND ROBBERS CAPTURING A MOMENT OF SOCIAL TRUTH. Everyone talked about the old Versenev house. Krutovrag was an unclean place. They said a lot