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Readers who love psychological stories, close portraits of ordinary and extraordinary minds, and fiction about fear, love and loss. Fans of Russian literature and short, intense novels will find it rewarding.
Che cos’è questo libro
Imagine knowing the exact hour of your death. Leonid Andreyev builds a whole novella on that single fear. Seven people are sentenced to hang in a season of secret trials. Five are young revolutionaries who planned to kill a minister. The other two are a silent Estonian farmhand and a restless horse thief from Oryol. The book does not argue politics. It asks what happens inside a person once the date is fixed. Each of them meets the same night in a different way, and the story begins with the minister, whose own fear sets the question.
In questo riassunto
- 1A warning that poisons a minister's nightFree
- 2Five young people face their judges
- 3Two men with no cause share their sentence
- 4Parents come to say a last goodbye
- 5Each prisoner meets the last night alone
- 6What the story means and how it is told
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A warning that poisons a minister's night
He smiles, praises them, and moves for the night into another man's palace.
Alone in a strange bedroom, he pictures the bomb tearing him apart. The thought of dying at one o'clock rings in his head like a hundred gramophones. He decides it is not death he fears, but knowing the hour.
The comfort does not last. His fear sinks into his bones, and he rings an electric bell in the dark. This opening sets the question of the whole book: what does a person become when death has a date?
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Questions about I sette impiccati
What is The Seven Who Were Hanged about?
It follows seven condemned people, five young revolutionaries who plotted to kill a minister, a farmhand and a horse thief, through their trials, last meetings with family and last night, showing how each faces the knowledge of an approaching death.
Who are the seven in The Seven Who Were Hanged?
They are Sergey Golovin, Musya, Werner, Vasily Kashirin and Tanya Kovalchuk, who belong to a group of terrorists, together with Ivan Yanson, an Estonian farmhand, and Mikhail Golubets, a robber known as Tsiganok.
What does the minister's night at the start have to do with the rest of the book?
The minister fears most the exact hour that the police give him. His terror of knowing the time of death sets the central question that the prisoners then live out, and it shows why the book begins with him.
Is it a true story and when is it set?
It is a work of fiction. Andreyev sets it in a harsh period of Russian history when secret military trials and quick executions of terrorists and criminals were common.
Is The Seven Who Were Hanged easy to read?
It is a short novel with short chapters, many focused on one person's thoughts. The language is clear and the scenes are vivid, with lively dialogue from characters like Tsiganok and Sergey, so the story moves along quickly.