A review by asifromancewasborn
Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreyev

5.0

‘Seven Hanged’ reminds me of Dostoevsky’s work in general and Camus’ ‘The Outsider’. It’s a novella about seven condemned criminals, their punishment and the cold-bloodedness, or rather the inhumanity that comes with the death sentence and it also reminded me of the saying; ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’. I think Andreyev wanted to make clear that death in itself is not something to be afraid of, because in the end it’s inevitable; no one is immortal. But telling someone that he’s going to die, but not exactly when, is destructive; it tears down the soundness of mind and is in a sense more cruel than the murder itself. Beautifully written, would highly recommend!