Leonid Andreyev's short story Lazarus begins with a celebration of life, which is also a denial of death. Later in the story this denial is crushed and death emerges victorious over everything. Lazarus is met by his relatives and friends as if he was a man returning from a war, and like a war veteran… Continue reading DENIAL AND BELIEF in LAZARUS
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LAZARUS
When Lazarus rose from the grave, after three days and nights in the mysterious thraldom of death, and returned alive to his home, it was a long time before any one noticed the evil peculiarities in him that were later to make his very name terrible. His friends and relatives were jubilant that he had… Continue reading LAZARUS