I just read ‘The read laugh’ by Leonid Andreyev. I’ve also watched ‘Come and and see’ by Elem Klimov. Also I’ve read ‘All quite on the western front’ by Erich Maria Remarque.
What makes all these things relate to each in my opinion is there gruesome depiction of war. No beating around the bush and reveals wars real horrors.
Enough to turn most people away from war. Any books like these? Brutal, gruesome and horrifying, I think fundamentally.
The Red Laugh I think is not as popular as the other examples but let me just quote two paragraphs from it to give an idea of the short story and see what I mean by no beating around the bush.
Spoilers, but the plot isn’t Largely spoiled in the quotes.
Spoilers! The Red laugh – Leonid Andreyev, last fragment/chapter.
(“And a dark-red field just as evenly below us, and it was covered with corpses. All of the corpses lay naked with their legs towards us, so we saw only the soles of their feet and triangles of their chins. And it was silent—-evidently they had all died, and no wounded had been left behind on the endless field.
“There will be more of them,” my brother said”)
That’s probably a tamer passage from the book.
Also, (“… You, young people whose lives still lie ahead of you, save yourselves and future generations from this horror, to this madness. We lack strength to withstand it: blood is flooding our eyes. The sky is falling on our heads; the earth is giving way beneath our feet. Good people…” )
I say not as famous but microsofts AI just told me it’s quite significant in Russian literature.
The anti-war sediment. Any books with those sort of tones?
SPOILERS! The Red laugh – Leonid Andreyev last fragment/chapter.
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