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His experiences as a soldier provide the basis for his first stories, including the very first, "Four Days" (Russian: "Четыре дня"), based on a real incident. The narrative is organized as the interior monologue of a wounded soldier left for dead on the battlefield for four days, face to face with
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In "A Very Short Novel" he examines the infidelity of a woman to a crippled hero. The story displays Garshin's talent for concentration and lyrical irony. "That Which Was Not" and "Attalea Princeps" are fables with animals and plants in human situations. The second of these stories has a sense of
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in 1877. He participated in the Balkans Campaign as a private, and was wounded in action. He was promoted to the rank of officer at the end of the war. He resigned his commission soon after in order to devote his time to literary efforts. He had previously published a number of articles in
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Garshin's work is not voluminous: it consists of some twenty stories, all of them included in a single volume. His stories are characterized by a spirit of compassion and pity that some have compared to
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by throwing himself down the stone stairs leading to his apartment building. Although not immediately fatal, he died as a result of his injuries in a hospital in April 1888, at the age of 33.
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His best-known and most characteristic story is "A Red Flower"; it fits in the series of lunatic-asylum stories in Russian literature (including
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Garshin was the son of an officer, from a family tracing its roots back to a 15th-century prince, who entered into the service of
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the corpse of a Turkish soldier he had killed. Garshin's empathy for all beings is already evident in this first story.
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Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (January 1993). "The Writer as Artist's Model: Repin's Portrait of Garshin".
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Despite early literary success, he had periodical bouts of mental illness. Garshin attempted to commit
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The essence of Garshin's personality is a "genius" for pity and compassion, as intense as
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Violence, murder, and fallen women: prostitution in the works of Vsevolod Garshin
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A Hamlet of His Time, Vsevolod Garshin: The Man, His Works, and His Milieu
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tragic irony. In "Officer and Soldier-Servant" he is a forerunner of
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Garshin in 1877, during his service in the Russo-Turkish War
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From the Reminiscences of Private Ivanov and other stories
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Article on Vsevolod Garshin and fan hysteria in the 1880s
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A collection of Garshin's stories translated to English
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In 1883, Garshin was the model for the younger Ivan in
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Portrait of Vsevolod Garshin by Ilya Repin
Ilya Repin
Bakhmut uezd
Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Saint Petersburg
Yevgeny Garshin
Imperial Russian Army
Russo-Turkish War
Russian
short stories
Ivan the Great
Russo-Turkish War
suicide
Dostoevsky
Nietzschean
D. S. Mirsky
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