The beginning of the end: Mark Aldanov

Mark Aldanov is an unusually popular writer of the twentieth century, behind which immediately after the appearance of his works, the reputation of one of the most talented writers of his time, the author of historical novels, so beloved by many readers, was fixed. V. Nabokov gave a capacious definition of the poetics of M. Aldanov: “The grin of the Creator forms the soul of creation.”
The novel “The beginning of the end” talks about the tragic events in Western Europe and Russia in 1937 and the Civil War in Spain. For the first time in fiction, Aldanov summed up the bloody events of 1937, spoke of the spiritual kinship of fascism and communism. The damned questions of the 30s, the connection of Leninist ideas and Stalinist atrocities, powerlessness and the power of democracy are some of the most important questions in the novel. With the mouth of one of his heroes, Aldanov determined that Russian revolutionaries approved the morality of hatred in the mind; At the heart of the misanthropic constructions of theorists of the Third Reich, the Russian writer saw a similar excuse for hatred, but not …

Author
Aldanov Mark Alexandrovich
Editor
Rozman Natalya
Publisher
Eksmo, 2012
Series
Library of World Literature