Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences : Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky / Stewart Jay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jay, Stewart, Author.

Contributor:

Fanger, Donald.

Series:

Russian Literature and Thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936.

Gorky, Maksim.

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.

Tolstoy, Leo.

Authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Russian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of a kind unmatched by that of any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century. Prodigiously gifted and prolific, riddled with contradictions, praised increasingly for political rather than literary reasons, he left a vast body of writing that contains acknowledged masterpieces alongside many currently neglected works that still await impartial assessment. Taken together, the pieces in this book (many of them based on fuller texts than those of previously published translations) present a surprising and unfamiliar Gorky-a figure who, once the clichés are stripped away from him, becomes ever more fascinating and enigmatic as man, as writer, and as historical figure. Among the volume's selections are portraits of Gorky by four particularly astute observers: poet Vladislav Khodasevich, critics Boris Eikhenbaum and Georgy Adamovich, and novelist Evgeny Zamiatin. Fanger's generous annotations and brilliant introduction will make this book indispensable to every reader with an interest in Tolstoy, Gorky, modern Russian literature and politics, or the art of the memoir.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Transliteration, Annotation, and Russian Names

Introduction

1. Lev Tolstoy

2. Anton Chekhov

3. L. A. Sulerzhitsky

4. Leonid Andreyev

5. Alexander Blok

6. Introduction

7. The Town

8. The Spider

9. The Executioner

10. People When They Think They're Alone

11. A Good Laugh

12. The Gardener

13. Instead of an Afterword

14. Appendix

15. Khodasevich

16. Zamiatin "M. Gorky"

17 .Eikhenbaum

18. Adamovich

Afterword

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300152548

030015254X

OCLC:

884499413