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portada Satan's Diary: A Darkly Comic Russian Satire of the Devil on Earth, Human Greed, and Modern Evil
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x0.5 cm
ISBN13
9788028359188

Satan's Diary: A Darkly Comic Russian Satire of the Devil on Earth, Human Greed, and Modern Evil

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Synopsis "Satan's Diary: A Darkly Comic Russian Satire of the Devil on Earth, Human Greed, and Modern Evil"

Satan's Diary is a darkly comic philosophical novel in which the Devil, inhabiting the body of the American millionaire Henry Wondergood, descends upon modern Europe expecting to master human corruption, only to discover that humanity has already surpassed his infernal imagination. Written in a compressed, ironic diary form, the book mingles satire, grotesque fantasy, and existential parable, standing within the Russian Silver Age's fascination with apocalypse, moral inversion, and the collapse of metaphysical certainties. Leonid Andreyev, one of the most psychologically intense Russian writers of the early twentieth century, was shaped by fin-de-sicle pessimism, political upheaval, and the traumas of war and revolution. A contemporary of Gorky yet temperamentally closer to Dostoevskian anguish and expressionist distortion, Andreyev wrote this late work in exile after the Russian Revolution, when his faith in political redemption had given way to a bleak scrutiny of power, greed, and spiritual emptiness. This novel is recommended to readers drawn to diabolical satire, modernist moral inquiry, and fiction that treats evil not as melodrama but as a philosophical problem. It is a sharp, unsettling work for admirers of Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Kafka.

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