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Очерки и рассказы (Essays and Stories)
- Gorky's first book Очерки и рассказы (Essays and Stories) in 1898 enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began.
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Gorky's first book Очерки и рассказы (Essays and Stories) in 1898 enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began. Gorky wrote incessantly, viewing literature less as an aesthetic practice (though he worked hard on style and form) than as a moral and political act that could change the world.
My Childhood, the first book of an autobiographical trilogy by Maxim Gorky, published in Russian in 1913–14 as Detstvo. It was also translated into English as Childhood.
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- The Mother
- Children of The Sun
- My Childhood
This month heralds the publication of the first new translation in decades of Gorky’s best-known novel The Mother. Hugh Aplin’s version of this flawed but rousing text conscientiously conjures the pre-Soviet world of Dickensian poverty, of loving widows and hard-pressed, saintly factory workers fomenting just revolution. Gorky wrote part of the nov...
Gorky published this surprisingly modern play about science and society in the revolutionary turmoil of 1905, a year before The Mother. He wrote Children of the Sun whilst in prison for protesting against the Tsar. Andrew Upton’s version, recently stagedat London’s National Theatre, is fresh and engaging. Upton feels that the job of an adaptation i...
In 1966, when Ronald Wilks translated the first part of Gorky’s fascinating autobiography, the town of Nizhny Novogorod was still called Gorky in the author’s honor. Wilks describes him in the introduction as “the great central figure in 20th century Russian literature.” Falling dramatically out of fashion in the intervening years, Gorky’s works ha...
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May 14, 2018 · Gorky's first novel, Foma Gordeyev (1900), illustrates his characteristic admiration for the hard-working, honest individual. The novel was the first of many in which the author portrayed the rise of Russian capitalism.
Gorky's first book, a two-volume collection of his writings entitled Очерки и рассказы (Essays and Stories) was published in 1898. It enjoyed great success, catapulting him to fame. At the turn of the century, Gorky became associated with the Moscow Art Theater, which staged some of his plays.
In 1899, he published his first novel, Foma Gordeyev, the story of a masterful barge owner and rising capitalist and his relatively feeble and intellectual son. The the autumn of 1899, Gorky moved to Petersburg, becoming as the literary editor of Zhizn' .
Aug 26, 2024 · Maxim Gorky, orig. Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, (born March 28, 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died June 18, 1936, near Moscow), Russian writer. After a childhood of poverty and misery (his assumed name, Gorky, means “bitter”), he became a wandering tramp.
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