Judah is a lekariot

Judas from Cariot is a symbol of betrayal, a great sinner who condemned Jesus Christ to death. At the same time, Judas, perhaps, is the most mysterious gospel character - that is the attractive for Leonid Andreev with his interest in contradictions in the human soul. The story “Judas is Proekariot”, according to the author himself, is “Fantasy on the topic of betrayal, good and evil”. Andreev is trying to understand what directed Judas and why he kills himself. The writer fills the gospel plot of betrayal by psychological content, reflecting on love and hatred, suffering and sacrifice, random and inevitable. The collection also included the novel “The Diary of Satan”, the story “The Life of Vasily Fiveo”, “The Story of the Seven hanged people” and other works of different periods of Andreev’s work.