Description
Red Laughter - Fragments from a Found Manuscript Book Description Red Laughter, written by Andreyev after Russia's heavy defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904), is one of the most shocking texts written on the incredible cruelty of the war. The fragmentary diary kept by a Russian officer during the terrible offensive in Manchuria is completed after his death by his brother, who did not participate in the war. The young officer lost his legs as a target of his own army's bullets. For him, “Red Laughter” means wounded, mutilated, shattered bodies; It is the symbol of “the land turning red with blood”: “This is how the world starts laughing when it goes crazy.” The brutality on the battlefield drove both the soldiers, exhausted by the endless march, and the doctors, who were helpless in the face of all this pain, crazy. Even though the officer's brother watched the war from outside, he became accustomed to death and pain and became insensitive, and he, like the officer, lost his mental health. The war has become so irrational that a mother who reads in the newspapers that her son died a terrible death receives letters from him for a month. Dead people receive letters from the dead. Red Laughter is the tragic story of the tremendous destruction caused by the war, which gradually turned into mass madness, the lives it turned upside down, and those who abandoned humanity and took refuge in madness. (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by İş Bankası Cultural Publications and written by Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz, is now in Dünyada Kitap.