Boris Savinkov (1879–1925)
Autor(a) de The Pale Horse
About the Author
Obras de Boris Savinkov
Cavallo pallido. Cavallo nero 2 cópias
Izbrannoe 1 exemplar(es)
The black horse : a novel 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Savinkov, Boris
- Nome de batismo
- Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich
- Outros nomes
- Савинков, Борис Викторович
Ropshin - Data de nascimento
- 1879-01-19
- Data de falecimento
- 1925-05-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Russia
- Local de nascimento
- Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Local de falecimento
- Moscow, USSR
- Ocupação
- writer
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Membros
- 114
- Popularidade
- #171,985
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 38
- Idiomas
- 9
And yet this first book was written before the Revolution, at a time when Russian terrorists like Savinkov and the double agent Ievno Azef were feted across Europe as heroes in the fight against tsarist autocracy. There is no idealism in this book nor was there any in the last novel, set a decade later during the Russian Civil War.
The story is a simple one — a small group of terrorists, presumably members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, have been put into some provincial capital with the task of assassinating its governor. The governor is fearful of precisely such an event, so he is heavily guarded at all times. The attempts are repeatedly thwarted. Members of George’s small band are killed. The killing of the governor, when it comes, is anti-climactic.
Savinkov writes very well. Had he not chosen a career as a professional revolutionary, he might have become a famous Russian novelist. One of my favourite passages occurs very early in the book, in the opening scene in George’s hotel room:
“The hotel bores me to weariness. I know so well its hall-porter in his blue tunic, its gilt mirrors, its carpets. There is a shabby sofa in my room and dusty curtains. I have placed three kilograms of dynamite under the table. … I have headaches at night.”
Recommended.… (mais)