Maxim Gorky
Writing
Born 1869-03-28
Died 1936-06-18
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing.
Gorky's most famous works are a short story collection 'Sketches and Stories' (1899), plays 'The Philistines' (1901), 'The Lower Depths' (1902) and 'Children of the Sun' (1905), poem 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel' (1901), autobiographical trilogy 'My Childhood', 'In the World', 'My Universities' (1913–1923), and novel 'Mother' (1906). Though Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, most are now seen as masterpieces.
Some of his less-known post-revolutionary works such as the cycles 'Fragments from My Diary' (1924) and 'Stories of 1922–1924' (1925), and novels 'The Artamonov Business' (1925) and 'The Life of Klim Samgin' (1925–1936), Gorky himself was more proud of; the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and sometimes being viewed by critics as a modernist work. Unlike his pre-revolutionary writings (known for their "anti-psychologism"), these differ with an ambivalent portrayal of the Russian Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky).
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Filmography
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Writing
28 credits
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
Foma Gordeyev
The Life of Klim Samgin
Enemies
Mother
Souls on the Road
Without Sun
The Petty Bourgeois
The Counterfeit Coin
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
Ilaingan
Dostigayev and Others
Mother
The Last Ones
The Zykovs
Mother
La Vida No Vale Nada
Eccentrics
The Zykovs
The Zykovs
Threesome
Before the Storm
Life of Klim Samgin
Mother
The Philistines
Summerfolk
Onde a Terra Começa
Shake-Up
Acting
32 credits
Legends of Cinema
A Man Before His Time
Meštiaci
Children of the Sun
The Lower Depths
Summer Guests
Out of Boredom
The Orlovs
Song of a Falcon
The Lower Depths
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Malva
Bývalí ľudia
Vassa
Enemies
The devil's love
Maxim Gorky
My Universities
Across Rus'
Soviets on Parade
Enemies
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Dostigayev and Others
Měšťáci
Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí
My Apprenticeship
The Lower Depths
Měšťáci
Vassa Železnovová
The Lower Depths
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
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