Pit

“The pit” is the most tragic work of Kuprin, which at one time produced the effect of an exploding bomb among readers and critics, and even now shocks its strength and merciless realism. The sad story of the inhabitants of the middle hand is told with almost photographic accuracy. The characters of the “night butterflies”, their customers and the only friend - a journalist whose image of Kuprin has autobiographical features, delights psychological depth and brightness. The novel captures not by the piquancy of the topic, but by the honest, indifferent and human attitude of the author to the fate of the girls who were brought into the “pit”.