Maxim Gorky The Writer: An Interpretation
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few figures in modern literature embody the turbulent contradictions of an entire nation quite like Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — the man the world came to know as Maxim Gorky — and F. M. Borras's Maxim Gorky the Writer: An Interpretation presents a rigorous and penetrating critical study of one of Russia's most formidable literary voices. Published by the Clarendon Press in 1967, this scholarly work chronicles Gorky's artistic evolution from his early romantically charged sketches of the Russian underclass to his towering later masterworks, situating his prose within the social and political upheavals that defined the late Tsarist and early Soviet eras. Borras dissects Gorky's celebrated realism with precision, illustrating how the author transformed raw, autobiographical suffering into a universal literature of human dignity and resistance, and argues convincingly that Gorky's aesthetic achievements far exceed the ideological labels too often imposed upon him. Written with the authority and analytical clarity expected of Oxford scholarship, this interpretation draws on close textual readings to uncover the thematic architecture underpinning works such as The Lower Depths and the autobiographical trilogy, revealing a writer of extraordinary psychological depth and moral complexity. Borras's study remains an essential reference point for anyone seeking to understand the literary — as opposed to merely the political — legacy of a man who stood at the very crossroads of nineteenth-century humanism and twentieth-century revolution. For readers curious about how one writer's pen could simultaneously capture the soul of a nation and challenge the conscience of a world, this volume offers an answer that demands engagement.
Author: F. M. Borras
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Genre: Literary theory
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few figures in modern literature embody the turbulent contradictions of an entire nation quite like Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — the man the world came to know as Maxim Gorky — and F. M. Borras's Maxim Gorky the Writer: An Interpretation presents a rigorous and penetrating critical study of one of Russia's most formidable literary voices. Published by the Clarendon Press in 1967, this scholarly work chronicles Gorky's artistic evolution from his early romantically charged sketches of the Russian underclass to his towering later masterworks, situating his prose within the social and political upheavals that defined the late Tsarist and early Soviet eras. Borras dissects Gorky's celebrated realism with precision, illustrating how the author transformed raw, autobiographical suffering into a universal literature of human dignity and resistance, and argues convincingly that Gorky's aesthetic achievements far exceed the ideological labels too often imposed upon him. Written with the authority and analytical clarity expected of Oxford scholarship, this interpretation draws on close textual readings to uncover the thematic architecture underpinning works such as The Lower Depths and the autobiographical trilogy, revealing a writer of extraordinary psychological depth and moral complexity. Borras's study remains an essential reference point for anyone seeking to understand the literary — as opposed to merely the political — legacy of a man who stood at the very crossroads of nineteenth-century humanism and twentieth-century revolution. For readers curious about how one writer's pen could simultaneously capture the soul of a nation and challenge the conscience of a world, this volume offers an answer that demands engagement.