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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.723
EAN num: 9780300001006
ISBN number: 0300001002
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: September 10, 1959
Publishing house: Yale University Press
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A brief profile of the Russian writer prefaces the texts of three plays characterized by their realistic portrayal of Russian life.
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Before reading this play, I'd been avoiding Gorky for a long time, because I too had fallen prey to the notion that Communist authors are always boring. I'm glad I finally picked up "The Lower Depths," because it's really well done. Gorky has an incredible command of idiomatic Russian, and the play advances its ideology in a fairly subtle fashion. (As a note, it was written around the turn of the century, so it predates the formation of the Soviet Union.)
The play is set in a flophouse filled with degenerates -- drunken actors, a dying woman and her husband, a former baron, and so forth. From these unlikely people, Gorky builds a tale of the realities of human nature, what it means to trust, to contribute to society, even to kill. The play is also worthwhile reading for students of pre-Revolutionary Russia -- the struggles leading up to that watershed event in Russian history are clearly evident.
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