Lazarus (short story)

The Raising of Lazarus (1630-1632), by Rembrandt.

Lazarus is a short story by Russian author Leonid Andreyev, published in 1906. Instead of confirming the traditional interpretation of the Biblical story as the triumph of life over death, Andreyev’s “Lazarus” shows the opposite—the titular character infects those around him with a cosmic indifference to life.[1]

  1. ^ Wise, Patrick (2019). "Smoothly Gliding Images": Leonid Andreyev's Verbal and Visual Imagery. https://doi.org/10.17615/6991-y520