Maxim Gorky

Through Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

Through Russia by Maxim Gorky is a collection of short stories following an unnamed wanderer as he journeys across Russia. The stories alternate between vivid, almost poetic descriptions of the expansive natural beauty of the Russian landscape and the bleak realities faced by the impoverished and marginalized members of society. Through the wanderer's encounters, Gorky contrasts the grandeur of nature with the crushing despair of life for those at the lowest rungs of the social ladder. The collection captures the emotional and physical struggles of the people the wanderer meets, from their harsh daily lives to their yearning for change. Gorky's use of purple prose in describing the Russian wilderness serves to enhance the stark contrast between the beauty of the environment and the hopelessness felt by the downtrodden. Ultimately, the stories present a powerful commentary on the social inequalities and hardships experienced by the lower classes, while also reflecting on the wanderer's own reflections and philosophical musings on life and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double 9 Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9789369079407
• ISBN-10: 9369079408
• Artikelnr.: 73245994

Autorenporträt

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868 - 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, My Childhood, The Mother, Summerfolk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic 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. In 1932, he returned to USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died there in June 1936.