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LEONID ANDREYEV
KING-HUNGER
LEONID
ANDREYEV is the youngest
and at the present time the most power
ful dramatist of Russia. Like Tchek-
hof and Gorki, he is very versatile: his
sketches and stories possess as fine a literary
quality and stirring social appeal as his plays.
No one who has read his terrible picture of war,
"
The Red Laugh," or his unsurpassed arraign
ment of capital punishment,
"
The Seven Who
Were Hanged," can erase from memory the ef
fect of Leonid Andreyev s forceful pen.
The drama "
King-Hunger
"
deals with the
most powerful king on earth, King-Hunger. In
the presence of Time and Death he pleads with
Time to ring the alarm, to call the people to rebel
lion, because the earth is replete with suffering:
cities, shops, mines, factories and fields resound
with the moans and groans of the people. Their
agony is unbearable.
King-Hunger. Strike the bell, old man; rend to the
ears its copper mouth. Let no one slumber !
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