Pit
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Pit
6.99 €
"We are fallen, but we don't lie, we don't pretend, while you still fall and lie. Now think for yourself—who benefits from this difference?"...
Alexander Kuprin, a classic of Russian prose and author of the famous stories "Olesya" and "The Garnet Bracelet," first published "The Pit" in 1909. This work about the lives of brothel dwellers sparked a heated debate among his contemporaries. No one in Russian literature had ever approached such a subject with such composure. "Prostitution is an even more terrible evil than war, pestilence, and so on," Kuprin was convinced.
...The Pit is the name given to the Yamskaya Sloboda, home to dozens of brothels. Platonov, a journalist for a local newspaper, describes their background. He is horrified not so much by the moral degradation of the women who work there, but by their way of life. They struggle for power, fight, and even if they do leave these walls, it usually ends in nothing. And most of them actually hate their clients. Zhenya, for example, knowing she's sick, infects them with syphilis out of spite...
"The Pit" has been adapted for the screen several times. The most famous is the drama of the same name by Russian director Svetlana Ilyinskaya, starring renowned actors Tatyana Dogileva, Valentina Talyzina, Evgeny Evstigneyev, and Oleg Menshikov.
Alexander Kuprin, a classic of Russian prose and author of the famous stories "Olesya" and "The Garnet Bracelet," first published "The Pit" in 1909. This work about the lives of brothel dwellers sparked a heated debate among his contemporaries. No one in Russian literature had ever approached such a subject with such composure. "Prostitution is an even more terrible evil than war, pestilence, and so on," Kuprin was convinced.
...The Pit is the name given to the Yamskaya Sloboda, home to dozens of brothels. Platonov, a journalist for a local newspaper, describes their background. He is horrified not so much by the moral degradation of the women who work there, but by their way of life. They struggle for power, fight, and even if they do leave these walls, it usually ends in nothing. And most of them actually hate their clients. Zhenya, for example, knowing she's sick, infects them with syphilis out of spite...
"The Pit" has been adapted for the screen several times. The most famous is the drama of the same name by Russian director Svetlana Ilyinskaya, starring renowned actors Tatyana Dogileva, Valentina Talyzina, Evgeny Evstigneyev, and Oleg Menshikov.
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