Gorky's Little Devil
6 hrs. 11 min.
Language
Russian
Author
György Spiró
Author
György Spiró
Narrator
Yulia Bochanova
Narrator
Yulia Bochanova
Description
The secret of the novel’s success is that it creates the character of a contradictory but undeniably bright and meaningful figure—Maxim Gorky.
The novel by the well-known Hungarian prose writer and playwright György Szpiro is built as fictional memoirs of Lipa—Olympiada Dmitrievna Chertkova (1878–1951), a witness of Gorky’s life over decades, a nurse and his last beloved woman (Devilina—her Italian nickname, given in Sorrento). The aptly found form allows you to show the world-famous writer through the eyes of someone close to him—from within his crowded home, where, alongside family members, mistresses, and boarders, appear famous figures of culture and historical personalities, from Savva Morozov and Lenin to Zinoviev, Stalin, and Yagoda. Gorky, as seen through Szpiro’s eyes, is a figure worth of pity yet still tragic: a man who believed that, with his authority, he could outmaneuver power by compromising with it.
The novel by the well-known Hungarian prose writer and playwright György Szpiro is built as fictional memoirs of Lipa—Olympiada Dmitrievna Chertkova (1878–1951), a witness of Gorky’s life over decades, a nurse and his last beloved woman (Devilina—her Italian nickname, given in Sorrento). The aptly found form allows you to show the world-famous writer through the eyes of someone close to him—from within his crowded home, where, alongside family members, mistresses, and boarders, appear famous figures of culture and historical personalities, from Savva Morozov and Lenin to Zinoviev, Stalin, and Yagoda. Gorky, as seen through Szpiro’s eyes, is a figure worth of pity yet still tragic: a man who believed that, with his authority, he could outmaneuver power by compromising with it.
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