The Scenery Of The Underworld

Leonid Andreyev’s creation has significant influence on the development of Russian literature in the 20th century. Writer refused superficial view of people. He kept an eye on the live and explored the life value from the view of the death. Writer’s consciousness of death not only combined with the west and Russia’s various opinions about death, but also has his own unique feature.Andreyev’s hero always can’t get away from the control of fate, Fate is just like the man in gray from The Life of Man. The man is standing in a corner with a candle in his hand. It is also like a pair of dark eyes staring at you out of the window or in the bedroom, and always with you.The hero in Andreyev’s works faced death without fear. His death waked people’s numbness of the soul, called for the return of the humanity and beyond the limited of body. Death is the people to the life tragedy of meditation. According to the writer’s understanding, the act of suicide is a kind of embodiment that the man cannot understand the real world, and it is also an embodiment of the inner loneliness and helplessness. In Silent Vera’s suicide is the highest embodiment of defiance. In Grand Slam the hero’s sudden death is a powerful expression of the impermanence of life.In the works, the people engaged in various professional are all in death, the priest’s daughter Vera is dead (Silent), Christ and the apostate judas died (Judas Iscariot), kind farmers died (Basil Five sky life), the governor died (Governor), ministers and revolutionaries died (The Seven Who Were Hanged).In this paper, the writer uses the existentialism, phenomenology, expressionism and space-time theory to analyze the death consciousness in literary works. Existence and death are inseparable, the death of the present study was to explore the mysteries of life. In this article through the studies of Andreyev’s works, to reveal the writer unique understanding of death, to find the writer’s art world with tendency of expressionism.