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There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

“When Lazarus rose from the grave, after three days and nights in the mysterious thraldom of death, and returned alive to his home, it was a long time before anyone noticed the evil peculiarities in him that were later to make his very name terrible.” One of Andreyev’s best-known short stories, Lazarus follows the Eastern Orthodox tradition that Lazarus never smiled again, and it explores what happened to the biblical figure after his resurrection from the dead. The unsettling coldness that exudes from the man who cheated death cannot be denied by anyone who meets him.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of Continental Europe and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the Russian male author whose time has now come again.

Leonid Andreyev’in “Kızıl Kahkaha” adlı eseri, savaşın yıkıcı etkilerini ve insanın alışılmış düzenin yerini nasıl kaosa bıraktığını keskin bir dille ele alır. Eserde, çatışmanın sadece bedenleri değil, aklı, inancı ve değer yargılarını da altüst eden yönü anlatılır. Savaşın getirdiği sert gerçeklik, disiplinle örülü yüzeyin altında, bireylerin savunmasızlığı ve umutsuzluğu ile iç içe geçmiş; okuyucuyu, varoluşun kırılganlığını sorgulamaya davet ediyor.