Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

171 kr

Skickas . Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-25
Mått:121 x 197 x 19 mm
Vikt:252 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Fitzcarraldo Editions
ISBN:9781804271971
Översättare:Bryan Karetnyk

Utforska kategorier

Essäer inom Skönlitteratur
Biografi: författare och journalister inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

‘Maxim Gorky’s Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev, now published in an elegant new translation by Bryan Karetnyk, unites three sketches penned by the most prominent and influential writer of the early Soviet Union…. All three are vivid and compassionate, providing a record not only of the writers but of their historical moment.’— Sophie Pinkman, New Statesman