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A collection of short stories about Russia. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
Through Russia, by Maxim Gorky - Published on: 2015-09-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .63" w x 8.50" l, 1.42 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 276 pages
Through Russia, by Maxim Gorky About the Author Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov (1868 –1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his re-turn to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths(1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, The Mother, Summer folk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later write his memoirs on both of them. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to Russia on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died there in June 1936.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Some of the best short stories I have ever read. By Angry Mofo Yet another criminally ignored writer. While Chekhov isn't exactly "well-known," he's at least widely recognized, and relatively inexpensive editions of some of his works are available from the likes of Penguin Classics. No such luck for Maksim Gorkii, despite his being one of the best authors of all time. This is, in fact, the first time I have seen an English translation of "Through Russia." For the intents and purposes of this review, I'll assume that this is the same "Through Russia" as the one I read - a collection of Gorkii's short stories. Okay, then.Gorkii is perhaps the spiritually strongest human being to ever have lived. His three-part autobiography will reveal that he did not grow up in a very happy family, and that's putting it very lightly. Then, before he even entered his teenage years, he was already "among the people," working like the others, and face-to-face with the most grim, banal and disgusting aspects of modern life. But he didn't break under it. Not a chance. Instead of succumbing, he not only managed to maintain his personal honour, grace and dignity, but also sought and fought for something more than the world offered, which he found in the form of books. Surrounded by ignorance and apathy, he nonetheless managed to retain his love of books and of truth - and took it with him to the road. Far from trying to escape life, Gorkii took it on head-to-head, and won. He travelled all over Russia, saw all sorts of people, worked at all kinds of jobs, and saw more in his lifetime than most people ever will, and this book is the result. It is a series of sketches and stories, all of which were directly recorded from his experiences. And what a book it is.Gorkii's books are life. They're not even Naturalistic - Naturalists researched life, but didn't necessarily record it exactly. Gorkii's books _are_ life. What you're reading is what happened. And it's absolutely amazing. There are unbearable amounts of apathy, dirt and indignity in life, but there are the people, few and far between, who redeem all of it, who rise above their surroundings and shine. Gorkii was such a person, and others are present in this book. Perhaps that ultimately life-affirming reassurance, the knowledge that there are people who know the true value of the world, that makes Gorkii's books so powerful, and what made their author capable of beating life.Not all of the stories are overwhelmingly powerful. In the middle, the book drags somewhat, apparently retreading the territory of other Gorkii works such as "Okurov Town." But some of these are literally some of the best stories ever written. I can only try to describe them; you'll have to read them. First we have "Birth of a Man," which basically summarizes Gorkii's major theme in fifteen pages. More powerful, however, is "Woman." I don't think I'll ever be able to forget the title character. But the real force of the book comes in the last three stories. First we have one with an untranslatable title, about an encounter the author has with the utter dregs of society, rejected even by the drunks and the freaks, a story about poverty, humanity, and survival. Then we shift gears completely for the odd, almost surreal story of an encounter with a decrepit old farm and its inhabitants in some desert. (I swear, I -heard- the woman sing...) And last is another desert story, wistful and melancholy with a violent conclusion. Its title character's sort of nonchalant fatalism is also not easy to forget. "First I'm here, then I have to leave. At home I have a friend, I leave and he betrays me. When spirits laugh, people cry. That's the way things are..."I realize I haven't exactly done a good job of describing what these are about, but it's something one has to experience for themselves. Think nothing of the price and buy this book. I hope to hell that the translation is at least competent.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Here Is One Classic That You Can Enjoy. By Frank Hickey If you have to buy only one book by Maxim Gorky, this should be the one. As the title says, he travels through Russia and scruntinizes the people there. He paints pictures of their struggles, the briefjoys and the harsh land that they try to till.There is no clear political message here. This is just the human condition. He does notjudge. He observes and writes, with a clear eye and a heart of compassion. This could be called the first example of 'The New Journalism' practiced by Western writers such as Truman Capote, NormanMailer and others a hundred years later. Gorky seems to purposefully keep himself aloof. He does not enter into debate. Herecords the debaters, with their cliches and unclear wants. But thesense of Russia comes clearly through. When you read the book, you feel as if you are trudging through Russia with him. When it rains, you look for a dry barn withhim. When the weather chills, you shiver with him. Working at a farm for a dinner brings you relief for the night. You feel thepain and the small happiness that ride alongside his bedroll with him. Skillfully, he begins this book of stories with a loose and off-hand way of telling. But as the stories progress, his visionintensifies. So do the stories. The last story "The Cemetery" starts in the bright afternoon sunlight on the steppe. He writes that,"Without fail, the steppe makes you feel like a fly crawling across a platter." I can write this phrase from my memory because itlodged there. Gorky finds it curious that in such a grim village on the steppe, the most cheerful place is the cemetery. He wonders at this. And the story ends after darkness has fallen and neighbors grieve a loss. He has spun his tale full-cycle from sunny afternoon to dark late night. You will savor this book for years. I have. Frank Hickey, writer of the Max Royster crime novels through Pigtown Books.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Bolshevism's laureate By richard palmer Gorky has been somewhat ignored as a literary figure of recent times. Probably because of his status as a Bolshevik writer. His subsequent voluntary 'exile' to Italy and his return to the Soviet Union have always raised eyebrows. Gorky had a complicated relationship with Stalin and was all too often played like a fiddle by Stalin to add literary and intellectual credibility to Stalin's various imperial schemes. For example, it was Gorky who was sent on a tour of the Gulags and returned writing praise of the conditions he found there, whilst it is obvious that there was the heavy hand of the sensor here, there remains the suspicion that Gorky was keen to retain his status as a writer in the Soviet Union with the privilages and Dachas that came with it. However, it is easy to sit in democratic London and pass judgement on such situations, Stalin, was not a man to be trifled with.This collection of short stories show Gorky at his best. The character of the worker/peasant shines through the complexities and traumas of Russian life. The characters are vivaciaous and real and the stories are a very good read.
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