Selected Letters

by Gorky, Maksim; Barratt, Andrew; Scherr, Barry P.

• ISBN13: 9780198151753
• ISBN10: 0198151756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume presents a collection of letters by one of the most important figures in the literary and intellectual life of Russia in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Covering the years between 1889 and Gorky's death in 1936, this selection allows Gorky to tell the story of his life in his own words, and supplies a unique and fascinating commentary on the cultural and political developments in which he was so profoundly engaged. His letters are of considerable interest in terms of their representation of the development of Russian literature, the light they shed on many writers and cultural-political figures of the period (including Lenin, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Pasternak) and as period documents in their own right.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Abbreviations	p. xi
Note on Transliteration	p. xii
The Life and Works of Maksim Gorky a Short Chronology	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
In the Provinces 1889-1899	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Writer and Activist 1900-1905	p. 41
Introduction	p. 43
Exile: America and Capri 1906-1913	p. 99
Introduction	p. 101
War and Revolution 1914-1921	p. 173
Introduction	p. 175
Europe Revisited 1921-1928	p. 217
Introduction	p. 219
The Slow Return 1928-1936	p. 297
Introduction	p. 299
Bibliography	p. 371
Index of Recipients	p. 373
General Index	p. 375
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