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In the Vortex

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In the Vortex
AuthorAleksey Pisemsky
Original titleВ водовороте
LanguageRussian
PublisherBeseda magazine
Publication date
1871
Publication placeRussian Empire
Media typeprint (Hardback & Paperback)

In the Vortex (Russian: В водовороте, romanizedV 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

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  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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