The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-20
TALE THAT "ROUSED
FURY IN RUSSIA"
Artzibashef's Literary Aim at
Moral Revolt i'm English
Translation.
THRILLS AND REALISM

Nichae Artzibashets story OF "Sa-
nine" translated by Percy Pinkerton
tB. W. Huebsch). is a book that made
trouble at the time OF rs original APP
pearance In 1907. From "A preface here
ard from other sources W critical in
formation the reader may gather q
number Of interesting facts and opin-
ions concerning II. II seems that II
was written in the despair which
seized the lntelligenzia of Russia att'r
the last abort.ve revolution, When
Their. was wrunc from the Grand
Dukes much less Of a constitution
than had been hoped for, This time
of failure and despair was the pSy-
Geological moment" for the appear
ancs OF such a book. Not everybody
approved OF Il. II reused fury both
in Russia and in Germany" and in
GONE measure II agi'ated Paris. Fall
ing 10 effect any considerable political
revolution, the intellectuals OF Russia
were driven to see what could be done
with morals. This book was a bold
attempt to marshal the animal IN
st!ncts OF humanity, terrihcally strong
as they are even IN the best citizens
against every moral and prudential re-
strain,." Russia was torn by the
book; Il arrayed Itself IN two hercely
antagonistic camps There Is no tell
ing what would have happened II the
Russian Government, exercising ruin
lessly its we'll known great powers.
had not stepped in and conhsca'en
Michael Artzibashefs book.
We come TO the story. Vladimir
Sanine appears Immediately. returning
home after a long and mysterious an
sence in parts of the world that are
not enumerated. His sister Lid re-
garded him intently while he was eat
ing and drinking tea. She was dlsap-
pointed. His quiet smile seemed 10
her self complacent, revealing nougnt
OF spiritual suffering n strit~. IL
hurt her when he related that once,
being hard up, ne had mended MS own
trousers. She thought this paItry' UNI
manly. AS they walked In the gariNn
by the river after tea Sanine broke a
withered branch in two and cast the
pieces into the stream. Al IN" same
moment the reeds growing in the river
bent their heads, This ends the nrst
chapter.
Ida was very beautiful. Her CON
y~ersat!on was not particularly bHl-
liant. NoviRoY loved her. He was a
phvs,cian, large, handsome. rather
bovine. He was faithful. single minded
no gadder-about. Sarud!ne, a cavalry
officer. was different. He was a PM
landerer. Ida yielded TO the cheap
glamour Of Sarudine. She knew that
in intelligence and culture he was her
inferior and that she could never ne
dominated by him: yet at the same
time she was aware OF something de-
uchtful and alarming In letting herself
he touched by this strong, comely
yo,ng man. She seemed - he gazing
down INTO a mysterious. "unfathomaole
abyss and thinking. Y could hurl my
self IN II | chose. ,
youri and Semenor are
your,i was OF a revolutionary and
melancholy turn. He had been m
nrIson.d in Moscow and afterward ex-
nelled from that city. Semenon was
a consumptive student. HIS face was
hnggard and ugly. We ind him say
Ing to Yourit; my constitutions done
for, II you knew how l dread uy'
} ing. ss' I am dying, dying, and
| all IL over" He Coughed n con
tlnued: 81 often think that before
long | shall be in utter darkness, bur
led in the cold earth. my nose fa.ler
in and my hands rotting: and here II
the world all will he Just az u Is "
And you'll be living and breathing thi'
air and enjoying this moonlight, ant
you'll go past my grave where IN
hideous and corrupted. What do YOU
impose I ARE for Bebel or TolstoS
or a million other gibberine apes"
=. He was not to be diverted by philos
dphy from thoughts OF his own Il
health. Yourii went nome ana Opened
his bedroom window, which looked ON
on the garden. Life Is conhl't, Yes
hut conflict for whom If not for one
self, for ones own place In the sur?
" II was a voice within which spok'
% thus. "Yourii affected not 10 hear i
and stroVe to think Of something else
But his mind reverted to this though
without Ccasing; it torm"nted hin
! even to bitter tears. lie was roblL'
. and good looking. but he was not a bl
happier thar his friend Semeroff,
= Sina, tho school teacher, was an
other beautiful girl, When a humble
Of the young people were off on
picnic she and Yourii went into a cave
at Is like being buried alive. w
might scream, out nobody would hea
us So said Sina. Hourii laughed
"Thcn "A sudden thought caused hi
brain to reel But he did not kis
Sina, To yourii such n though
!. seemed unutterably base, Fc puickl
, banished IT," on their way out OF tn
cavo tho two talked over tho "psy