داستانهای برگزیده: مجموعۀ ۲۴ داستان

by Maxim Gorky, افسر صدارت (Translator), رضا آذرخشی (Translator)

شامل داستانهای: «۱ - من با گورکی»؛ «۲ - همسفر من»؛ «۳ - نخستین عشق من» «۴ - پادشاهی که بیرق سلطنت را برافراشت»؛ «۵ - معلم اخلاق»؛ «۶ - فرانسه زیبا»؛ «۷ - استادان زندگی»؛ «۸ - بچه‌ ها»؛ «۹ - پدر و پسر»؛ «۱۰ - عبرانی»؛ «۱۱ - زن چشم کبود»؛ «۱۲ - مادر و فرزند»؛ «۱۳ - افسانه مادر»؛ «۱۴ - عجوزه ایزرگیل»؛ «۱۵ - افسانه وانکو»؛ «۱۶ - جماعت»؛ «۱۷ - زندانیان»؛ «۱۸ - شب میلاد»؛ «۱۹ - نهم ژانویه»؛ «۲۰ - واسکا سرخه»؛ «۲۱ - رومان»؛ «۲۲ - سرزمین اندوه»؛ «۲۳ - فضول» و «۲۴ - ملاقات»۰

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Russia, Russian Literature, Classics

316 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1950

About the author

Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.

This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.

Reviews

[Bettie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anton Chekhov and Gorky. 1900, Yalta. Whenever I see Chekov I think of Clapton, which is rather a fab mental association.


Description of the author: Born "Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov" on March 16, 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia -- later renamed in his honor - Maxim Gorky would learn early the harsh lessons of life. He spent his early childhood in Astrakhan where his father worked as a shipping agent, but when the boy was only five years old, his father died, and he was sent to live with his maternal grandparents. This was not a happy time for the young Gorky as conditions were poor and often violent. At the age of eight, the boy's grandfather forced him to quit school and apprenticed him to several tradesmen including a shoemaker and an icon painter. Fortunately, Gorky also worked as a dishwasher on a Volga steamer where a friendly cook taught him to read, and literature soon became his passion.

At the age of twelve, Gorky ran away from home and barely survived, half starving, moving from one small job to the next. He was often beaten by his employers and seldom had enough to eat. The bitterness of these early experiences led him to choose the name Maxim Gorky (which means "the bitter one") as his pseudonym.

MAKAR CHUDRA: A cold damp wind came out of the sea, wafting over the steppe the pensive melody of the waves breaking on the shore and the rustle of the dry bushes. See! the reading life is a tough one - what the finnegans was that first sentence?
Okay, okay, I got it after two more read throughs, it just wasn't phrased for a Sunday brain. This was penned in 1892 and is a tale of murderous passion.

AT THE SALT MARSH: "Go to the salt marsh, mate. You can always get a job there. Any time at all." The marsh is set near Ochakov, a town on the coast of the Black Sea, Ukaraine, five versts away from from the duck hunter cum fisherman who spoke those first lines. A brutish tale of how man can become a beast if he is expected to work and live like one. From 1893

OLD IZERGIL: THESE STORIES were told to me on the shore of the sea near Akkarman, in Bessarabia. Thee tales of myth, legend and superstition on the steppes. 1894

CHELKASH:THE BLUE southern sky was so obscured by dust that it had a murky look. The hot sun stared down at the greenish sea as through a thin grey veil.Where stevedores are dwarved by leviathan ships, there lingers the eponymous barefoot thief. 1894

ABOUT A LITTLE BOY AND A LITTLE GIRL WHO DID NOT FREEZE TO DEATH:A christmas story: IT has become the custom to freeze a number of little boys and girls to death once a year in Christmas stories. Least of the stories.

SONG OF THE FALCON: THE BOUNDLESS sea, lapped lazily where the shore-line ran, slumbering motionless in the distance, was steeped in the blue moonlight. I have a problem with this opening, is it the translator or did Gorky himself make an error with his scene-setting. LATER: as with story #1, the more I re-read this beginning the more it came to make sense, and to be totally honest, cannot see why I should find it so jarring in the first place. C'est la vie. A parable related by the Muslim herdsman, Ragim. From 1895

EXPOSURE: Down the village street, past its white clay huts, moved a crowd of people shouting loudly. Two page eye-account on the practice of a deceived husband GBH-ing his wife in public.

A MITE OF A GIRL: "JUST a mite of a girl she was stranger." Every time I recall this phrase, two pairs of old and feeble eyes smile at me through the years - smile with a soft and tender smile full of love and compassion; and I hear two cracked voices impressing on me in identical tones that she was just "a mite of a girl." A snippet of a tale from two travelling geriatrics. This one will stay with me a while I think. 1895

KOLUSHA: IN THE paupers corner of the cemetary among the leaf-strewn, rain-washed, wind-worn grave mounds, a woman in a worn gingham dress and with a black shawl over her head was sitting on one of the graves in the lacy shadow cast by two sickly birches.

Gorky with Joseph Stalin near the Kremlin in 1931

3* Short Stories
3* Mother

[منوچهر محور]

کتابی که من خوندم ترجمه انگلیسی ۱۹ داستان کوتاه و بلند از گورکی بود که بین سال‌های ۱۸۹۲ تا ۱۹۰۱ نوشته شدند. اینا کارهای ۱۰ سال اول نویسندگی گورکی هستن و می‌شه گفت به مرور زمان بهتر می‌شدند. چند تا داستان خوب داشت مثل «چلکاش»، «عجب دختری»، «زنی با چشمهای آبی»، «وانکا مازین»، «اورلف‌ها» یا حتی «شاعر». یکی دو تا داستان هم رو به خوب بودن یعنی کاش روی پرداختشون بیشتر مایه گذاشته بود؛ مثل «ماکار چودرا»، «ایزرگیل پیر» یا «چگونه سماگا دستگیر شد». و از همه بهتر «درباره دخترک و پسرکی که شب کریسمس یخ نزدند» بود. ولی دو تا شعاری هم داشت: «پرواز باز» که از قرار جزو شاهکاراش به حساب میاد و شبیه داستانهای گلستان یا کلیله و دمنه هست (حالا نه که این ایرادش باشه) و «خواننده»؛ ایراد جفتشون هم سخنرانی به جای داستان‌نویسی هست. یک داستان از جریانی واقعی هم هست به نام «افشا» که من رو شدیداً یاد داستان «واسکا سرخه» انداخت که بچگی توی کتاب هفته خونده بودم، رفتم دوباره نگاه کردم دیدم بعله اون داستان هم از ماکسیم گورکی هست.

[Jason Reeser · Rating 5 out of 5]

This contains the best short story I've ever read. "Twenty-Six Men and One Girl". Gorky's masterpiece is heartbreaking, and I love to return to it again and again. Gorky's stories will make you sad, (his last name, a pen name, means bitter), but you won't be able to look away.

[Keshi]

awesome..!

[Literati · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read basically all of Gorky's published works at this point, and I am nonetheless still interested to read more. He is the perfect pairing of a person with pure insight coupled with experience- a life of turmoil, stress and suffering matched with the ability to understand it all, and set it to writing better then anyone else could. Gorky is understanding of the plights of those he encounters throughout Russia, he is not ultimately forgiving but he does not judge. The supreme realist in him- basically this book is a hit parade of Lenin's favorite stories.

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything you read from Gorky at the end will make you a better person.

[Khalid Tayar · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the sadness, happiness will born, i feel so sad when i read Gorky's stories, but indeed i feel as i live in his world when reading his books (Selected short stories & The Mother).

[Bodhisattya Pal · Rating 5 out of 5]

"There are no better tales than those which are born of life itself" - Hans Christian Andersen

All stories are from his real life - you know Gorky, the writing is - poetic, beautiful still very original! His writing has a deep contact with nature and normal hard working people. 'My Fellow Traveller' & 'Chelkash' is surprising, 'Twenty six men & a girl' is soulful & moving, 'Old izergil' is magical. The flow of the stories are very ordinary but the effect is terrific. It was a beautiful experience to read this Russian legend. The sweats and bloods of this genius, is there in every lines. Read Gorky if you still hadn't.

What is your favorite Maxim Gorky Short stories? please share..

[Aashna Gill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maxim Gorky is my new favourite author.

[Amaan Ahmad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like his work. He's one of the best writers I've read. His work depicts realism and I could feel and cherish the moments and imagery described in his work. A good writer!

[Manu Sikarwar · Rating 4 out of 5]

As i am really fond of reading short stories and biographies, I found it really great book.The way of description is tremendous,different from now-a-days books.