Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gorky s Tolstoy Other Reminiscences written by Maksim Gorky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Gorky s Tolstoy Other Reminiscences written by Donald Fanger and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fragmentary notes were written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nikolaevich at Gaspra in the Crimea. They cover the period of Tolstoy's serious illness and of his subsequent recovery. The notes were carelessly jotted down on scraps of paper, and I thought I had lost them, but recently I have found some of them . . . I include here an unfinished written by me under the influence of the "going away" of Leo Nikolaevich from Yasnaya Polyana, and of his death. I publish the letter just as it was written at the time and without correcting a single word; and I do not finish it, for somehow or other this is not possible. -- M. Gorky.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi by Maksim Gorky written by Maxim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book is composed of fragmentary notes written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nicolayevitch at Gaspra in the Crimea. They cover the period of Tolstoi's serious illness and of his subsequent recovery. The notes were carelessly jotted down on scraps of paper, and I thought I had lost them, but recently I have found some of them. Then I have also included here an unfinished letter written by me under the influence of the "going away" of Leo Nicolayevitch from Yassnaya Polyana, and of his death. I publish the letter just as it was written at the time, and without correcting a single word. And I do not finish it, for somehow or other this is not possible. M. GORKY.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maxim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally publlished in Russia in 1919, the first half of this book, consisting of notes, was written between 1900 and 1901 when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living in the Crimea. The second half consists of a letter written by Gorky in 1910 at the time of Tolstoi's death. Additional notes, not included in the first Russian edition, have been included in this English translation published in 1920 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, which was at the forefont of publishing translations of foreign works, particularly from the Russian.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov written by Maxim Gorky and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one can infer from the title, the following book is about Anton Chekhov - not necessarily a biography of his life, but rather memories that the author has of him. From his love of all animals with the exception of cats to the orchard where he has planted each tree; the author shows us a side of Chekhov outside the boundaries of what his works are known for. The writer of this book is also a famous author within his own right - Maxim Gorky, a Russian writer and political activist who was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy written by His Contemporaries and published by . This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never before had such a voice sounded in Europe ... It is little to say that we were thrown into raptures by the creative genius of Tolstoy. It became part of our life, became our very own," wrote Romain Rolland, one of Tolstoy's greatest contemporaries. This book is neither a biography nor a literary portrait. It is the voice of the times in which Tolstoy lived. These reminiscences, contributed by people from widely different circles - by Tolstoy's wife and children whose contributions give us a true picture of the great writer's private life; by writers, artists and actors who were his friends; by comrades who accompanied him on the military campaigns in which he took part; by the doctors who tended him; by people who served as prototypes of characters from his novels; by teachers in his school at Yasnaya Polyana; by peasants of Yasnaya Polyana, representing that "human ocean" whose flux and flow Tolstoy followed with such rapt attention - all of them taken together present the total impression that Tolstoi made upon his generation. In a word, the pages of this book reveal to the reader the wisdom and inner conflict of the man whom Gorky has called "a one-man orchestra," "the most complicated of all great men of the 19th century."
Download or read book Reminiscences of Tolstoy Chekhov Andreyev written by Maksim 1868-1936 Gorky and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Tolstoy written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Childhood written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maksim Gorky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I The thought which beyond others most often and conspicuously gnaws at him is the thought of God. At moments it seems, indeed, not to be a thought, but a violent resistance to something which he feels above him. He speaks of it less than he would like, but thinks of it always. It can scarcely be said to be a sign of old age, a presentiment of death - no, I think that it comes from his exquisite human pride, and - a bit - from a sense of humiliation: for, being Leo Tolstoy, it is humiliating to have to submit one's will to a streptococcus. If he were a scientist, he would certainly evolve the most ingenious hypotheses, make great discoveries. II H3e has wonderful hands - not beautiful, but knotted with swollen veins, and yet full of a singular expressiveness and the power of creativeness. Probably Leonardo da Vinci had hands like that. With such hands one can do anything. Sometimes, when talking, he will move his fingers, gradually close them into a fist, and then, suddenly opening them, utter a good, full-weight word. He is like a god, not a Sabaoth or Olympian, but the kind of Russian god who "sits on a maple throne under a golden lime tree," not very majestic, but perhaps more cunning than all the other gods. III He treats Sulerzhizky with the tenderness of a woman. For Tchekhov his love is paternal - in this love is the feeling of the pride of a creator - Suler rouses in him just tenderness, a perpetual interest and rapture which never seems to weary the sorcerer. Perhaps there is something a little ridiculous in this feeling, like the love of an old maid for a parrot, a pug dog, or a tom-cat. Suler is a fascinatingly wild bird from some strange unknown land. A hundred men like him could change the face, as well as the soul, of a provincial town. Its face they would smash and its soul they would fill with a passion for riotous, brilliant, headstrong wildness. One loves Suler easily and gaily, and when I see how carelessly women accept him, they surprise and anger me. Yet under this carelessness is hidden, perhaps, caution. Suler is not reliable. What will he do to-morrow? He may throw a bomb or he may join a troupe of public-house minstrels. He has energy enough for three life-times, and fire of life - so much that he seems to sweat sparks like over-heated iron.
Download or read book Dostoyevsky s Notes from the Underground and Gorky s the Confession written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth book of ABSURD's 'Pure Wisdom' series. It includes two literary masterpieces written by two giants in the world literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Maxim Gorky. The contents of the book are Dostoyevsky's 'Notes from the Underground' and Gorky's 'The Confession'. 'The Confession' is a confession of a man wandering through Russia seeking a philosophy to live by. 'Notes from the Underground' is also a confession of a man who is on the margins of modern society, it examines the effects modern life has on that man's personality- who has gradually gone mad over a lifetime of inability to cope with the society around him. "Notes from the Underground" was the first major work of Dostoyevsky. It is considered to be the first existential novel that influenced other literary giants and philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of the 19th century. He was a psychologist before psychology was born as a term like now, and his observations were sharp and universal. This novel is still relevant, the themes of the novel- industrialism, utopianism, western markets, the grip of science and technology on truth- are the themes of today too. "The Confession" gives insight into some compelling Russian and wider human themes explored by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gorky himself; these include the roles of the church, the state, and individuals, ubiquitous human questions of love, fear and death, and the responsibilities people have for one another. "The Confession" is a first-person account of Matvei, who is abandoned soon after his birth. Matvei, like Gorky himself, is a seeker for truth who learns as he travels. He meets other kindred souls on his way, including a young boy who tells him "I'm not a tree; I don't have to live my whole life in the same spot." An old pilgrim he meets says "it is not right to say to man, 'stand here, ' but always, 'go farther and farther.'" In two very different and powerful ways, both the novels carry in their cores a common theme which is "Man vs. Society." Society can harm an individual and it can support an individual to flourish too. The growths of the individuals also mean the growths of a society, of a nation, of this very world. How can a society grow by keeping its individuals suppressed?
Download or read book The Three written by Maxim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have just read The Three. It is a good book. Yes, despite its verbosity, repetition, and many other faults, it is a good book. As I read it I thought sadly that if such a book had fallen into my house fifteen years ago it would have spared me the torture of many thoughts as superfluous as they were painful.A big great dilapidated house is filled to bursting with poor working folk. Here poverty and the law of the fist hold away. The strong beat the weak; grown -- ups beat children -- beat them hard, sometimes to death.It is in this house that three friends spend their childhood and youth. One of them Ilya Lunyev (the main character in the book), is a sturdy chap who moves into town from the country. The other two are Yakov Filomonov, a meek, quiet boy, son of a bar- keeper, and Pavel Grachov, the blacksmith?s bellicose son.With the insight and sympathy of a great writer Gorky relates the grim life story of these three. We learn about Masha, Vera and Olimpiada, the girls who went through so many trials; about the tragic fate of Ilya, the untimely death of Yakov, and the new course upon which Pavel sets out under the influence of his new friends.
Download or read book On Literature written by Maxim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is to books that I owe everything that is good in me. Even in my youth I realized that art is more generous than people are. I am a book-lover; each one of them seems a miracle to me, and the author a magician. I am unable to speak of books otherwise than with the deepest emotion and a joyous enthusiasm. That may seem ridiculous but it is the truth. It will probably be said that this is the enthusiasm of a barbarian; let people say what they will - I am beyond cure." Maxim Gorky
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature written by Caryl Emerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked - and then conquered - the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring themes and fascinations across several centuries. Beginning with traditional Russian narratives (saints' lives, folk tales, epic and rogue narratives), the book moves through literary history chronologically and thematically, juxtaposing literary texts from each major period. Detailed attention is given to canonical writers including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov and Solzhenitsyn, as well as to some current bestsellers from the post-Communist period. Fully accessible to students and readers with no knowledge of Russian, the volume includes a glossary and pronunciation guide of key Russian terms as well as a list of useful secondary works. The book will be of great interest to students of Russian as well as of comparative literature.
Download or read book Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe written by Gerri Kimber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers.
