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Sanin (novel)
Résumé
Sanine (Санин) is a novel by the Russian writer Mikhail Artsybashev.
The book was written in 1907–at a time of a horrific political reaction to enormous changes in Russian society (democratic activities, first democratically elected Duma in 1906, as well as the Russian Revolution of 1905). Russian society was heavily influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church and to lesser extent Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam, none of which condoned an open expression of sexuality. By 1908 the novel was no longer being produced due to censorship. It was banned as a "work of pornography". When Artsybashev emigrated to Poland after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was condemned by the Soviet authorities and his books were banned from publication. They were revived in the 1990s.
The hero, twenty-something Sanine, after a long absence from home, comes back to visit his mother and sister.
Sanin deals with sex and sexual activity throughout the novel. Various characters including the main character Sanin and his sister Lida dabble in premarital sex. Lida describes her experience with Zarudin as her body was "thrilled and shaken with passion". Knowing it is not the best thing for a young lady not to be married and have relations, yet she longs for another chance to experience that same passion and lust.
Characters in the novel wrestle with and spar by using a variety of in-vogue philosophies, including egoism, nihilism, Tolstoyanism, Christianity, utopian socialism, and middlebrow morality. One of the characters gets to a point where he admits "that life was the realization of freedom, and consequently that it was natural for a man to live for enjoyment". Lida feels conflicts between her internalization of society's condemnation of premarital sex and her more spontaneous conclusion that "I wanted to do it and I did it; and I felt so happy".
During his stay Sanin meets various people, some of whom are neutral, amazed, threatened or excited by his way of thinking about the world and human existence.
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