The Diary
Leonid Andreev is one of those writers who in life had underestimated and forgotten after his death. In his work he has developed two main themes, which, on the one hand, are very similar, but on the other – are different: the theme of war and subject Demon which mainly shows the duality of human consciousness, fluctuating between God and Satan, between the millennia-old instincts and the wall unknowable. But, despite the fact that the war – a topic outside, and the theme Demon – personal, everything works Andreev is an intimate character. The writer has long lived in exile, but it did not make him a love of foreigners, nor hatred compatriots. MongoDB has compatible beliefs. Worked in a very large range of genres: articles, short stories, plays, novels and, of course, a personal diary, which was not designed to be printed. Now a personal diary of the writer published in France.
The product, which we'll talk, too, a diary – The Diary of Satan. " Fatal events, marking both writing diaries indicate that they are non-random connection. "Diary of Satan" was launched in spring 1918 and soon abandoned – Andreev him cooled off and went on to write a personal diary. In the fall of 1919 he died of a brain hemorrhage. In a small village in Finland. While "The Diary of Satan" was left unfinished, it is undoubtedly one of the best works of Andreev. His style is austere, restrained, and thus is bright, in good seen in the dialogues.