# Max Z. — Short Fiction character guide

> Max Z. in Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Max

**First appearance:** 0001-short-fiction

## Who they are

A character with a mysterious or foreign background.

## In the story

### [Love, Faith and Hope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/love-faith-and-hope)

Protagonist who experiences a crisis of love and faith, then dedicates himself to saving humanity, only to be imprisoned and isolated.

### [Fragment VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/part-i-fragment-vi)

The narrator, a legless soldier who recalls the horror of being wounded by friendly fire and is haunted by the 'red laugh'.

## Links

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