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Plays 2: The Last Ones / Vassa Zheleznova / The Zykovs / Egor Bulychev
"His plays survive through their sheer emotional intensity."—Guardian
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was hailed by Anton Chekhov as the voice of his time. Chekhov described Gorky as "the first in Russia to have expressed contempt and loathing for the bourgeoisie, and he has done it at the precise moment when Russia is ready for protest." These four plays offer a panoramic view of Russian life during the revolutionary years and are here given accurate playable translations by Cathy Porter.
The Last Ones: "A single main conflict, that between two brothers predominates. If Enemies marks the end of Gorky's first period of play writing, then The Last Ones opens the second."—Barry Scherr
Vassa Zheleznova: "It is a startling play, clearly the work of the author of The Lower Depths, and the central responsibility it gives to women is fascinating."—Financial Times
The Zykovs: "Gorky is writing about a bourgeois society in a state of perilous drift. But what gives his play its guts and spirit is his feeling that all these characters have human potential that is being fruitlessly squandered."—Guardian
Egor Bulychev: "The study of a man at grips with the whole problem of existence ... it is the real stuff of tragedy."—The Times
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was hailed by Anton Chekhov as the voice of his time. Chekhov described Gorky as "the first in Russia to have expressed contempt and loathing for the bourgeoisie, and he has done it at the precise moment when Russia is ready for protest." These four plays offer a panoramic view of Russian life during the revolutionary years and are here given accurate playable translations by Cathy Porter.
The Last Ones: "A single main conflict, that between two brothers predominates. If Enemies marks the end of Gorky's first period of play writing, then The Last Ones opens the second."—Barry Scherr
Vassa Zheleznova: "It is a startling play, clearly the work of the author of The Lower Depths, and the central responsibility it gives to women is fascinating."—Financial Times
The Zykovs: "Gorky is writing about a bourgeois society in a state of perilous drift. But what gives his play its guts and spirit is his feeling that all these characters have human potential that is being fruitlessly squandered."—Guardian
Egor Bulychev: "The study of a man at grips with the whole problem of existence ... it is the real stuff of tragedy."—The Times
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336 pages, Paperback
First published June 26, 2003
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Maxim Gorky
1,779 books1,773 followersRussian 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.
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.
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