As Trevas e Outros Contos
1907
First Published
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288
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As Trevas e Outros Contos é uma viagem pelo universo de Leonid Andréev, onde, em cada recanto, espreitam os temas de eleição do autor e as suas obsessões. Neste punhado de textos intensos, alternam o quotidiano num hospício, onde se esbate a fronteira entre a sanidade e a loucura (Os Fantasmas, 1904), a crónica da morte anunciada do mandante de um massacre (O Governador, 1905), a releitura da traição de Judas Iscariotes (1907) e um retrato cru da sexualidade numa sociedade hipócrita (No Nevoeiro, 1902), que lhe valeu numerosas acusações de imoralidade - e elogios de Tchékhov. As Trevas (1907), conto que abre a colectânea e tido por um dos favoritos do autor, aproxima-nos do dilema de um bombista ingénuo e idealista, que, ao refugiar-se num prostíbulo antes do derradeiro atentado, se divide entre o fanatismo e um amor abnegado.
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Author
Leonid Andreyev
Author · 51 books
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Андреев; 1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. His first story published was About a Poor Student, a narrative based upon his own experiences. It was not, however, until Gorky discovered him by stories appearing in the Moscow Courier and elsewhere that Andreyevs literary career really began. His first collection of stories appeared in 1901, and sold a quarter-million copies in short time. He was hailed as a new star in Russia, where his name soon became a byword. He published his short story, In the Fog in 1902. Although he started out in the Russian vein he soon startled his readers by his eccentricities, which grew even faster than his fame. His two best known stories may be The Red Laugh (1904) and The Seven Who Were Hanged (1908). His dramas include the Symbolist plays The Life of Man (1906), Tsar Hunger (1907), Black Masks (1908), Anathema (1909) and He Who Gets Slapped (1915).
