Maxim Gorky
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Maxime Gorki est un écrivain russe soviétique considéré comme un des fondateurs du réalisme socialiste en littérature et un homme engagé politiquement et intellectuellement aux côtés des Révolutionnaires bolcheviques. Enfant pauvre et autodidacte, formé par les difficultés et les errances de sa jeunesse, passé par le journalisme, il devient un écrivain célèbre dès ses débuts littéraires. Auteur de nouvelles pittoresques mettant
...OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world,—nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving
...OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world,—nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving
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