Publication details
Andreevskij "Smech" kak ekzistencial´nyj eksperiment
| Title in English | The Short Story Smech by L. N. Andreev as an Existentional Experiment |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Ural´skij filologičeskij vestnik |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=27372974 |
| Keywords | L. N. Andree; The Laugh (Smekh); existentialism; contrast of the inner and external world of an individual; mask; loneliness; absence of the adequate mutual communication |
| Description | The article depicts a full opposition between the inner and the external world of the hero-narrator and the lack of the mutual communication. The mask, which the hero wears, makes the mutual understanding between the hero and his beloved girl impossible. The total misunderstanding between the hero and all the persons surrounding him lets the hero to feel a total existentional loneliness. |