Sasha, By Alexander Kuprin (Classic Reprint)

Kuprin is a complete contrast not only with the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century from Gogol to Tolstoi, but also with his contemporaries of the twentieth century from Gorky to Korolenko. Undoubtedly, it is exceedingly difficult to define his position, which has but slight kinship with the stoical greyncss of Tchekhov and still less with the almost hectic impressionism of A ndreev. His admiration for the works of Rudyard Kipling has probably as little significance as Gogol sperusal of Pickwick when on the eve of writing Dead Souls. Kuprin, in fact, is too individual to be labelled, but it may be said of him that he gives on a small scale the very essence of that Ru5sia.n realism whichlhegr-ea4: writers of the last century gave on a great scale. And if Maupassant may be said to have given us slices of life, Kuprin may be said tQ-iV-e.us tastesofiif e. Not even Turgenev himself recalls the savour of an exquisite moment with a more physical insistence than does the author of Sasha. Born in 1870, Kuprin passed from the Cadet School to the Military School at Moscow and became a lieutenant at the age of twenty. He left the army in 1897 to devote himself, like Dostoievsky before him, to literature. He found fame through The Duel which, published soon after the Russo-J apanese War, was accepted as an indictment of the A rmy.
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