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| Author(s) | Nikolai Leskov |
| Original title | На ножах |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Publication date | 1871 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback & Hardback) |
| Preceded by | Old Years in Plodomasovo (1869) |
| Followed by | The Cathedral Clergy (1872) |
At Daggers Drawn (На ножах) is a novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in 1870 (issues 10-12) and 1871 (issues 1-8, 10) by Russky Vestnik. In November 1871 the novel was released as a separate book. The novel’s oroginal text has been severely edited by the magazine's stuff.[1]
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On October 14, 1871, Leskov informed P.K.Schebalsky that he found the final part of it being missing from the final version and confessed to being “totally crashed by this novel”. “What devastates me is that I am absolutely unaware as to the reason for cuts that’s been made in my novel, cuts having nothing to do with normal mode of editing and which are highly detrimental to the novel. Thus, speeches that’s been put down in order to show the development of characters and their goals (like that of Frolova’s intention to lead her husband to God). The specifics of language ahs been filed down cruelly with most trivial words used instead (the phrase: "no more meat you’d eat than teeth spit out" had been changed to "loose"), the portraits of characters have been much weakened".[2] In April 1871 Leskov wrote to Schebalsky that he was "finishing the novel in haste, just to fulfill my obligations".[3]
The novel was not included into the 11 volume collection[4] due to censorship reasons.
In 1998 in Moscow the TV series of the same title was filmed at the Maxim Gorky’s Studio by director Alexander Orlov who also wrote the script.
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