Gorky: Lower Depths (Russian texts) - Softcover

Maxim Gorky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853993506 ISBN 13: 9781853993503

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press, 1998

Synopsis

Na dne (the Lower Depths) of 1902 was Gorkys most successful play and remains one of his best known works, and gave him international renown. Set in a doss-house, it carries a powerful message indicting the society which allows its members to become derelicts and down and outs, thieves and whores. Of universal value, this play was a hit, despite the Censors reservations, in Stanislavskys Moscow Art Theatre, and was subsequently filmed by Jean Renoir.

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About the Author:

Maxim Gorky was born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod, 225 miles east of Moscow, in 1868. By 1978 both his parents were dead and he spent his youth as a nomadic labourer. In 1898 his collection of Stories and Sketches was published and proved an immediate success. His plays include The Lower Depths (1902), Summerfolk (1904), Children of the Sun (1905), Barbarians and Enemies (1906) and Yegor Bulichev (1932). His other books include Childhood and My Universities and the novel The Mother. A socialist from his early days, he never joined the Communist Party. He offered qualified support to the Soviet state after 1918, living abroad from 1924 to 1932. In 1934 he became head of the Writers' Union but his work showed an increasing awareness that something had gone wrong with the revolution. He died in 1936.

Synopsis:

This is a Russian text with English introduction and notes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1853993506
• ISBN 13: 9781853993503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Kurt Klein & Ira Goetz