Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev (eBook)

Maxim Gorky (Autor)

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2025
204 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
9781804271988 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. 'It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written,' writes Leonard Woolf in his autobiography. 'It makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy and his character as if one were sitting in the same room – his greatness and his littleness, his entrancing and infuriating complexity, his titanic and poetic personality, his superb humour.' In 1934, the book was expanded to include Gorky's memoirs of two other great Russian literary figures, Anton Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev. Almost a hundred years later, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev is reissued in a superb new translation by Bryan Karetnyk.

Autor

Maxim Gorky was born in 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod. After a grim childhood and some years of wandering he began to write stories and by his thirties had become world-famous both for fiction and plays. He became involved in revolutionary activity against the tsarist regime in Russia and had a confused, difficult relationship with the Soviet dictatorship, partly living abroad and yet becoming the USSR's most feted and widely read author. He died in 1936 under suspicious circumstances and Stalin and Molotov were among the bearers of his coffin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2025
• Einführung: J. M. Coetzee
• Übersetzer: Bryan Karetnyk
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: Andreev • Biographies • Biography • Chekov • Hogarth Press • literary memoir • Memoir • modernism • reissued • Russian Classics • Russian Literature • russian masterpiece • Tolstoy • translated literature • twentieth century classic • Twentieth century literature • Virginia Woolf
• ISBN-13: 9781804271988 / 9781804271988