Literary Pictures
By Maxim Gorky
1936
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This collection of literary portraits forms a gallery of life-like representations of some remarkable Russian authors. Here we have Tolstoi — "superhumanly wise," Chekhov — "sagely modest," Korolenko — "calm and of an extraordinary simplicity," Kotsubinsky — "at home in the ideal world of beauty and good," Garin-Mikhailovsky — "gifted, inexhaustibly cheerful," Prishvin, who wrote about "The Earth, our Great Mother." Gorky's unfailing interest in creative personalities, his keen observation, his ability to capture every characteristic word, gesture, intonation, his profound knowledge of the times producing these personalities, enabled him to penetrate the mysteries of such complex and self-contradictory individuals as Tolstoi, Chekhov, Korolenko, and many others. And in his contacts with his great contemporaries new and wonderful features of the author of these portraits—Alexei Maximovich Gorky—are unconsciously displayed.
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Maxim Gorky
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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.
