THESE GLOOMY RUSSIANS
GRASDANKA. By Sergey Potemkin. London, T. Werner Laurie. 7/6. Some readers will remember a profoundly gloomy song, " Gloomy Sunday," which exerted such a malevolent influence that several of its hearers committed suicide. While "Grasdanka" is not quite in the same category, it is a tale of almost unrelieved melancholy. The author has chosen a sordid theme, and in places has "piled on the agony." Necessarily, too, he relies upon situation rather than upon descriptive writing, and the ending, in which the unfortunate Grasdanka is killed, is melo-dramatic and not convincing. The chief character, the girl herself, does, however, excite some sympathy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 3, 14 July 1939, Page 41
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