Dr. M. Weisskopf. The Ways of the Saviour: Alexander Grin’s “The Rat-Catcher” and its Mythic and Political Context
The author’s archive study has shown that this story, believed to be Grin’s best, underwent a long evolution. An early version was written in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fantastic key involving speaking animals: the action was set in the Bolshevik Petrograd caught [more]