Destruction

…Born into a family of professional revolutionaries, he participated in the revolutionary movement from his days at Vladivostok Commercial School, and made his debut with the short story Against the Current (1923) and the medium-length story Flood (1924), which described his experiences. He established his literary reputation with the novel Annihilation (1927), and became a central figure among proletarian writers. This work, which deals with the tragedy of partisans surrounded by the White Guard and Japanese troops, and depicts the personalities and inner lives of the various soldiers with Tolstoy-esque psychological realism, is considered one of the masterpieces of early Soviet literature. …

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…職業的革命家の家に生まれ，ウラジオストク商業学校のころから革命運動に参加，その経験を描いた短編《流れに抗して》(1923)，中編《氾濫（はんらん）》(1924)でデビュー。長編《壊滅》(1927)で文名を確立し，プロレタリア作家の中心的存在となった。白衛軍と日本軍に包囲されたパルチザンの悲劇を扱い，さまざまな隊員たちの性格や内面世界をトルストイ的な心理主義的リアリズムで描きわけたこの作品は，初期ソ連文学の傑作の一つとされている。…

※「《壊滅》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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