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263 PAGES?!

Uh,Ive read it-and ,compresed to A3 format,it was just 60 pages long.Is that the edition with the "Red laugh" youre mentioning?

New Babylon 2 (talk) 07:26, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I got the page numbers from Amazon.com which also included the Red Laugh. A Google search on this book brings varying page numbers. One Google Book search says the book has 91 pages, while another one says the book has 194 pages. Which one of these three page numbers should be used? Cunard (talk) 16:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well,its about the separate story,not the colection of TSWWH AND TRL,id say whichever is smaller. New Babylon 2 (talk) 20:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Historical fiction

Uhm,considering it follows the psychological torments and the mental strains of seven fictional people in a non specified time during imperial russia,writen at that period,Id rather call it psychological horror or something of the sort.Theres very litle to no realia, except finding out they shiped prisoners to scaffolds using trains. New Babylon 2 (talk) 09:00, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I've changed the genre to that. Cunard (talk) 22:07, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't agree at all. The story avoids superfluous detail, but is still specific about the physical setting of the action, which is also clearly set in Andreyev's own times (so the classification 'Historical fiction' won't do either). The writing is a masterpiece of precision, poignancy, and restraint. The word 'horror' is totally out of place. Some of Andreyev's other works (such as 'Abyss' or 'In the mist') could certainly be classified as 'psychological horror', but this one is solidly in the Russian realist tradition. RP, 24 Nov 2012.

Novel ?

Is it a novel? It is a short story ("рассказ"). --Vladimir Ivanov (talk) 20:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In a standard modern printing it has 77 pp., divided into 12 chapters. This (and the scope of the work, with its large cast of characters) makes it a 'Novelle', better translated as a 'short novel' than as a 'short story'. RP, 24 Nov 2012.

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 :I agree. I've changed the genre to that. [[User:Cunard|Cunard]] ([[User talk:Cunard|talk]]) 22:07, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
+I don't agree at all. The story avoids superfluous detail, but is still specific about the physical setting of the action, which is also clearly set in Andreyev's own times (so the classification 'Historical fiction' won't do either). The writing is a masterpiece of precision, poignancy, and restraint. The word 'horror' is totally out of place. Some of Andreyev's other works (such as 'Abyss' or 'In the mist') could certainly be classified as 'psychological horror', but this one is solidly in the Russian realist tradition.  RP, 24 Nov 2012.
 == Novel ? ==
 Is it a novel? It is a short story ("рассказ"). --[[User:Vladimir Ivanov|Vladimir Ivanov]] ([[User talk:Vladimir Ivanov|talk]]) 20:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
+In a standard modern printing it has 77 pp., divided into 12 chapters. This (and the scope of the work, with its large cast of characters) makes it a 'Novelle', better translated as a 'short novel' than as a 'short story'. RP, 24 Nov 2012.