In the Vortex

In the Vortex
Author Aleksey Pisemsky
Original title В водовороте
Country Russian Empire
Language Russian
Publisher Beseda magazine
Publication date
1871
Media type print (Hardback & Paperback)

In the Vortex (Russian: В водовороте, translit. V vodovorote) is a novel by Alexey Pisemsky written in 1870 and first published in Beseda magazine's Nos. 1-6, 1871, issues. Initially dismissed by critics of the democratic camp as just another 'anti-nihilist' novel (alongside Daniil Mordovtsev's Sign of the Times and Nikolai Bazhin's The History of One Community, both 1869) aimed at discrediting the revolutionary movement, later it came to be recognized as one of Pisemsky's most sophisticated works.

Lev Tolstoy praised In the Vortex for its compositional intricacy, while Nikolai Leskov considered it to be the best of Pisemsky's novels.[1]

References

  1. Yeryomin, M. (1959). "Commentaries to In the Vortex. The Works by A.F. Pisemsky in 9 volumes. Vol. 6". Pravda Publishers. Ogonyok library. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
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