Artsybashev, Mikhail Petrovich

Artsybashev, Mikhail Petrovich

▪ Russian author
born Nov. 5 [Oct. 24, Old Style], 1878, Kharkov province, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv province, Ukraine]
died March 3, 1927, Warsaw, Poland

      Russian prose writer whose works were noted for their extreme pessimism, violence, and eroticism.

      Artsybashev began publishing short stories in 1895, but it was not until 1903–04 that he achieved an amount of fame. His most famous work is the novel Sanin (Eng. trans. Sanin, or Sanine), which he began in 1901. It was serialized in 1907 and published in book form a year later. In this novel, the antihero Sanin adopts a lifestyle of selfish and cynical hedonism in response to society's insoluble problems. Artsybashev's main characters symbolize a negation of everything except so-called primitive realities, which for Artsybashev were sex and death. Conservative critics condemned him for immorality, and progressive critics found in the novel little intrinsic literary merit, but he enjoyed great popularity for a time.

      The rest of Artsybashev's works, among them the novel U posledney cherty (serialized 1910–12; “Before Crossing the Line”; Eng. trans. Breaking-Point), did not have the same success as Sanin. After 1917 he lived in Moscow, although he was isolated from its literary circles. In 1923 he immigrated to Poland and was accorded citizenship there. Artsybashev became one of the leading figures of Warsaw's Russian newspaper Za Svobodu! (“For Freedom!”), in which he published anti-Bolshevik articles that were later collected in Zapiski pisatelya, 2 vol. (1925–27; “An Author's Notes”).

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