Gorky, Maxim

Gorky, Maxim. 1906. Dachniki Stseny, Chetyre Akta. Berlin Verlag Snanije. 

Gorky, Maxim, Sobranie sochinenii v o tomakh, vol. 27 (Moscow GIKhL, 1954), p. 12. All subsequent references are to this edition, and are indicated in the text hy volume and page number in parentheses emphases are mine. 

The contrast between these authors is not absolute even in terms of pub-lishability and censorship. In reality Sholokhov, too, had a great deal of difficulty getting sections of Quiet Flows the Don published because they were politically problematic. They would not have appeared at all except for the intervention of such powerful patrons as the writers Alexander Serafimovich and Maxim Gorky, and even Stalin. 5 And Sholokhov s texts were subjected to major cuts and progressive censorship with each edition. In... 

Socialist Realism [Quiet Flows the Don), and Vladimov s poetics recalls the war prose of Konstantin Simonov, such as Simonov s Socialist Realist classic The Living and the Dead. And Prilepin s Sankia reminded many critics of the early versions of Socialist Realism exemplified by Maxim Gorky s novel Mother (1903). For many generations of post-Soviet readers and writers it is Socialist Realism that preserves the strongest imagery of collective identities this is probably why the quest for a sense of unified identity frequently leads to the restoration of its models. 

Vsevolod Pudovkin, who began his career as an actor for Kuleshov, was another avant-garde director ready to make literary adaptations. His first full-length film was a version of Maxim Gorky s novel Mother Mat, 1926),... 

The adaptations of Maxim Gorky s autobiographical trilogy, describing his childhood and youth in late-nineteenth-century Russia, were among the... 

Quoted by Donald Fanger in Fanger, Donald, trans. and ed., Gorky s Tolstoy and other Reminiscences Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky (New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 2008), p. 9. 

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