Artsybashev, Mikhail

Otto Boele (Universiteit Leiden)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 5 Nov 1878
Died 3 Mar 1927
Activity c. 1905-1927

Places

Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Other

Journalist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Artsybashev's Works

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Epitomizing, according to many critics, the “decadent” nature of late-imperial literature, the novels and stories of neo-realist Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927) were unavailable to Russian readers for a long time. The novel

Sanin

(1907), a

roman a thèse

that seemed to preach unrestrained sex and extreme individualism, especially caused such a scandal that it was banned a year after its publication and subsequently remained locked away in the special storage sections (

spetskhran

) of Soviet libraries for decades. Artsybashev’s reputation as the author of that single infamous novel has survived to this day. His work was published again in the 1990s, and recent scholarly attention to Artsybashev has been more nuanced, but has not led to a major reassessment of his writing.

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Citation: Boele, Otto. "Artsybashev, Mikhail". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 April 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13280, accessed 24 November 2024.]