Ageev M.: Roman sa kokainom
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Roman sa kokainom
Ageev M.
Summary
M. Ageev: A Novel with Cocaine
A Novel with Cocaine is a psychological novel in which the narrator Vadim Maslenikov presents his "case" of moral and physical decay during the stormy years of Russian history.
The story begins in 1914, when the hero is 16 years old and dreams of a future in which he will be a famous lawyer and a rich man. The entire first chapter, Gymnasium, is dedicated to its formation. At that time, Vadim's character traits are already coming to the fore: he is ashamed of his mother because he is 57 years old, hunched over, gray and wearing a faded fur coat. Describing his colleagues in everyday life at school, Vadim Maslenikov simultaneously draws the types that set the tone for the socio-political reality of pre-revolutionary Russia.
The second chapter is entitled Sonya and reveals Maslenikov's love relationship with an elderly lady, a dissatisfied woman in search of the true values of life, who saw in Vadim a spark of boyish innocence and sincerity. They began to meet intensively, but at the crucial moment, when they were supposed to realize their love, he faked fainting and that was the end of their relationship.
The feeling of rejection was radically portrayed by Vadim Maslenikov in the third chapter, Cocaine. In a completely different environment, in the world of cocaine, among people who are unknown to him, he continues his own search for happiness and meaning.
In the fourth chapter, Thoughts, the narrator appears from a grotesque reflection of reality, from a drug addict's madness and a nightmare, where people and situations are placed in such a way as to warn him of the doom he is rushing into.
Vadim Maslenikov is a weak personality, a double character like Arkadij Dolgoruky from F. M. Mladić. Dostoevsky. Criticism often compared The Novel with Cocaine and the mentioned work by Dostoevsky, mainly the motive of rejecting the mother, then the tendency to intense self-observation, the desire for social affirmation, sympathy for "meek" women and, among other things, the coincidences between the facts of the author's life and the actions of the main characters.
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