FREE THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF MAXIM GORKY PDF Maxim Gorky,Avrahm Yarmolinsky,Baroness Moura Budberg,Frederic Ewen | 424 pages | 01 Jul 1988 | Penguin Random House LLC | 9780806510750 | English, Russian | none The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky by Maxim Gorky His international fame rests on a tremendous literary output, including the powerful play "The Lower Depths", the monumental novel of the Russian Revolution, "Mother", his vital Autobiography and, of course, his short stories. The collection represents the very best of Gorky's genius. For this edition the renowned scholar and author Frederic Ewen has written a penetrating new introduction evaluating Gorky's place in the world's literary pantheon. Overall, I think there are good things here that should interest The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky interested in short stories, Russian Until the recent collapse of the Soviet state, Gorky was officially viewed as the greatest Russian writer of the twentieth centuryan The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky far above the true measure of his nevertheless considerable talent. Proclaimed the founder of socialist realism, he significantly influenced many Soviet writers, as well as others in The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky and in the developing world, and his works The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky for decades part of the Soviet school curriculum. His formal education was minimal. From the age of 11, he fended for himself with a variety of jobs. Self-taught, he published his first story, "Makar Chudra," in His first collection, Sketches and Storiesis a romantic celebration of society's strong outcaststhe hobos and the driftersand helped to popularize such literary protagonists. Foma GordeyevGorky's first novel, depicts generational conflict within the Russian bourgeoisie. A popular public figure on the left, Gorky was often in trouble with the tsarist government. During the s, he was the central figure in the Znanie publishing house, which produced realist prose with a social conscience. Some of his own works were extremely successful. The play The Lower Depthsset in a poorhouse and a strong indictment of social injustice, was not only a staple of Soviet theater but also influential in the United States. The propagandistic, extraordinarily influential novel Mother presents an iconic working-class woman who is transformed into a saint of the Revolution; its optimism in the ultimate triumph of the cause made it a prototype of socialist-realist fiction. During the years prior toGorky published a number of autobiographical stories: All Over Russia also Through Russia and his memoirs; My ChildhoodMy Apprenticeshipand My Universities This trilogy shows his art at its best and includes some very lively reminiscences of such writers as Tolstoy and Chekhov. Although a Bolshevik party member sinceGorky strongly criticized the new regime after the October Revolution: His collected articles fromUntimely Thoughts, remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until recently. A cultural activist, he helped to save the lives of many writers, artists, and scholars during the cold and hungry years of the civil war. In he left Russia for Italy but returned permanently a decade later, recognized as the grand old man of Soviet literature. He then worked for Stalin's economic policies and presided over the institutionalization of socialist realism. At his death, he left unfinished a major novel of considerable interest, The Life The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky Klim Samgin, which he had been working on since Maksim Gorky. Maxim Gorky continues to be regarded as the greatest literary representative of revolutionary Russia. Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations for a better life as no academic could. NOTCH Avrahm YarmolinskyMoura Budberg. The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky : Maxim Gorky : He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov ; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs. Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist communist 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. He was brought up by his grandmother [2] and ran away from home at the age of twelve in After an attempt at suicide in Decemberhe travelled on foot across the Russian Empire for five years, changing jobs and accumulating impressions used later in his writing. Gorky wrote incessantly, viewing literature less as an aesthetic practice though he worked hard on style and form than as a moral and political act that could change the world. The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky described the lives of people in the lowest strata and on the margins of society, revealing their hardships, humiliations, and brutalisation, but also their inward spark of humanity. Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation. Byhe was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement, which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of "conscious" workers. At the heart of all his work was a belief in the inherent worth and potential of the human person. In his writing, he counterposed individuals, aware of their natural dignity, and inspired by energy and will, with people who succumb to the degrading conditions of life around them. Both his writings and his letters reveal a "restless man" a frequent self-description struggling to resolve contradictory feelings of faith and scepticism, love of life and disgust at the vulgarity and pettiness of the human world. InGorky said that the teachings of the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder deeply influenced his life: "In my early youth I read Hillel, if I remember rightly: 'If thou art not for thyself, who will be for thee? But if thou art for thyself alone, wherefore art thou'? The inner meaning of these words impressed me with its profound wisdom The thought ate its way deep into my soul, and I say now with conviction: Hillel's wisdom served as a strong staff on my road, which was neither even nor easy. I believe that Jewish wisdom is more all-human and universal than any other; and this not only because of its immemorial age He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and was arrested many times. Gorky befriended many revolutionaries and became a personal friend of Vladimir Lenin after they met in He exposed governmental control of the press see Matvei Golovinski affair. From toGorky's writings became more optimistic. He became more involved in the opposition movement, for which he was again briefly imprisoned in Inhaving severed his relationship with the Moscow Art Theatre in the wake of conflict with Vladimir Nemirovich-DanchenkoGorky returned to Nizhny Novgorod to establish a theatre The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky his The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky. As a financially successful author, editor, and playwright, Gorky gave financial support to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party RSDLPas well as supporting liberal appeals to the government for civil rights and social reform. The brutal shooting of workers marching to the Tsar with a petition for reform on 9 January known as the "Bloody Sunday"which set The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky motion the Revolution ofseems to have pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions. He became closely associated with Vladimir Lenin The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky Alexander Bogdanov 's Bolshevik wing of the party, with Bogdanov taking responsibility for the transfer of funds from Gorky to Vpered. His most influential writings in these years were a series of political plays, most famously The Lower Depths While briefly imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution, Gorky wrote the play Children of the Sunnominally set during an cholera epidemic, but universally understood to relate to present-day events. He was released from the prison after a European-wide campaign, which was supported by Marie CurieAuguste Rodin and Anatole Franceamongst others. His experiences in the The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky States—which included a scandal over his travelling with his lover the actress Maria Andreyeva rather than his wife—deepened his contempt for the "bourgeois soul" but also his admiration for the boldness of the American spirit. From toGorky lived on the island of Capri in southern Italy, partly for health reasons and partly to escape the increasingly repressive atmosphere in Russia. The two men had worked together on Literaturny Raspad which The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky in It was during this period that Gorky, along with Lunacharsky, Bogdanov and Vladimir Bazarov developed the idea of an Encyclopedia of Russian History as a socialist version of Diderot 's Encyclopedia. During a visit to Switzerland, Gorky met Lenin, who he charged spent an inordinate amount of his time feuding with other revolutionaries, writing: "He looked awful. Even his tongue seemed to have turned grey". Though 'God-Building' was ridiculed by Lenin, Gorky retained his belief that "culture"—the moral and spiritual awareness of the value and potential of the human self—would be more critical to the revolution's success than political or economic arrangements. An amnesty granted for the th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty allowed Gorky to return to Russia inwhere he continued his social criticism, mentored other writers from the common people, and wrote a series of important cultural memoirs, including the first part of his autobiography.