Andreev

or An·dre·yev

[ ahn-drey-yuhf ]

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noun

Leonid Nikolaevich [lee, -, uh, -nid nik-, uhlah, -y, uh, -vich, llyee-, uh, -, nyeet, nyik-, uh, -, lah, -y, uh, -vich], 1871–1919, Russian writer.

One cannot read Andreev's Red Laugh to-day without thinking of it.

Unlike Turgenev, both Chekhov and Andreev study mental disease.

The poetic quality in Andreev animates all his dramas, particularly To the Stars.

No one can read Chekhov and Andreev without being conscious of the hovering spirit of the first master of Russian fiction.

Neither Chekhov nor Andreev have attempted to lift that black pall of despair that hangs over Russian fiction.

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