I almost never see him brought up in discussions about Russian literature, despite him being almost as prominent as Chekhov and Tolstoy in Russia. His autobiographical trilogy is one of the most depressing and beautiful things I've ever read. Has anyone else read anything of his?
>>25033509need qrd on Gorky asapI have never read anything from state-supported (((soviet))) thought giants... besides Bunin and Bulgakov (which honestly were not s*viet writers).Solzhenytsin, Shalamov and Pasternak are 'emigres', etc, etc etcI recently came across some russian guy, antisemitic and hilarious. Pls genuine russians, tell me what to think of him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avLrVq0kni4imho he mostly pulls this from his ass but i dont' care while it being a good pastime. Anyhow, he mentioned Gorky one too many times and so i'm ready to give it a try, despite him being a state supported cardboard writer.With which book of his should i start with?
>>25033668His autobiography is his best work imo and should be read first. In order its My Childhood, In the World and My Universities. He perfectly illustrates life in provincial Russia just before the revolution. It also gives context to why all his stories are particularly miserable, even by Russian lit standards. Gorky had a remarkably hard working class life as an orphan before he became a writer.His novel "Mother" was required reading in Soviet schools, for whatever that is worth. Most people consider the four part novel "The Life of Klim Samgin" as his masterpiece. I haven't read it yet, though.
that nigger spent most of his life by sucking on stalin's toes and produced just tons of propaganda
>>25033668also i need some intel on this guy, ДимДимыч. I'm not baptized in russian conspirology , pls help me out if you can. Is he someone special or just another dime a dozen teapot? His lectures on "soviet theater' knocks me out, aside from his other content which is mid tier slavic bragging and hand waving on 'kangs' theme.
>>25035013>Is he someone special or just another dime a dozen teapot?His "Endless Dead End" is the best Russian book of the second half of the 20th century, you should definitely read it if you can read Russian, it's available for free on his website (samisdat.com/3/311-000.htm). His more conspirological works are definitely special too as they aren't very obviously retarded like NOD and other regular Russian schizos. >his other content which is mid tier slavic bragging and hand waving on 'kangs' themeWhat other content did you watch? His literature and "what is the International", "what is communism" lectures are pretty good. The lectures about biographies of soviet leaders and how they completely fall apart when you think about them longer than 10 seconds are very amusing too. The stuff about all history between the fall of Rome and 1650s being fake is too /x/ for me but it has interesting points. Idk where did you see bragging and kangz, he is very critical of Russian society and often says that being dumb is Russian national trait and that revolution was inevitable because of that. He also thinks that Russia did not exist at all before the times of troubles and that it originated from Poles colonizing uninhabited territories in Eastern European Plain, and that Russian state formed only around Peter I-Catherine II times.
>>25035056tnx anon i'll check the sources
>>25033509Lenin is rushing down the corridor of the Smolny Institute.A sailor comes toward him:— Vladimir Ilyich...— No time, comrade!He runs on. A worker comes toward him:— Vladimir Ilyich...— No time, comrade!He keeps running. A peasant comes toward him:— Vladimir Ilyich...— No time, comrade!He runs further, bursts into the toilet, and there’s Gorky coming toward him:— Vladimir Ilyich! I’ve just written "Mother"!Lenin snatches the book from his hands, tears out a page, and hurries off:— A very necessary, very timely book!
>>25033509>I almost never see him brought up in discussions about Russian literatureBeing a Sovietboo, he was declared haram by the glowniggers, who did a lot of atni-commie lit pushing in the West. Like, see >>25033668>Bunin and Bulgakov (which honestly were not s*viet writers).Solzhenytsin, Shalamov and Pasternak anon lists exclusively authors who were published by CIA. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/doctor-zhivagohttps://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00875R001100090056-6.pdfetc etc etcWhich is not to say that they are in any way bad authors, it just proves that Anglophone anons are familiar with Russian authors that were pushed by the Cold War glowies (plus Dostoyevsly and Tolstoy), and completely unaware of those who were deemed too pinko by those very glowies. I know for a hard fact that only about 3 anons who frequent this board have ever even heard of Sholokhov, and he's got a fucking Nobel. Point being, fucking golem NPCs man.
>>25037163>etc etc etcGo on, did cia pushed Bulgakov too?>Anglophone anons are familiar with Russian authors that were pushed by the Cold War glowies (plus Dostoyevsly and Tolstoy)Plus Strugatsky brothers, plus Chekhov, plus Turgenev etc etc etc>only about 3 anons who frequent this board have ever even heard of SholokhovQuiet Don is regularly discussed here, wtf are you talking about. Have you considered the possibility that you never see Groky brought up in the west because he was retarded soviet functionary who wrote unreadable slop that no-one cares about even in Russia and not that the CIA niggers brainwashed everyone into not reading him?
>>25037274>Go on, did cia pushed Bulgakov too?>"what is YMCA-Press???">Chekhov>TurgenevNow those are fair examples. >Plus Strugatsky brothersVery few here read them tho. >Quiet Don is regularly discussed hereCheck out warosu. There are 7 mentions of it through teh 2025. Two of them are me. Two more are anons who never read it but heard that Sholokhov totally plagiarized it. Not exactly what one would describe as "discussed regularly". >Have you considered the possibility that you never see Groky brought up in the west because he was retarded soviet functionary who wrote unreadable slopOne can consider that, and it would be a strong consideration, seeing as it can only be refuted through a cardinal /lit/ sin, that of actually taking his works and reading them. >CIA niggers brainwashed everyone into not reading himNever claimed that. Only that "le Russian author" space on Anglophone shelves is overwhelmingly taken up by authors who were deliberately pushed as a part of an actual literal factual undeniable glownigger culturewar psyop. Well, either that, or actual literal CIA deskfaggots were so kind and thoughtful as to only promote the quality authors and suppress the hacks. Because that's what they obtain drug trade funds for - to shape fine literary taste among American and European audiences.
>>25035013A memeworthy conspiratard from a more civilized age, a veteran of the internet, the author of classics such as 'Oбидa Haбoбa'.
>>25037163>SholokhovI always omit him in the discussion, althoug Tихий Дoн is one of my all time favourites. I refuse the at times circulated opinion that Tихий Дoн was written by a graphomane. I also refuse that it was written by Sholokhov. The prose of it is that of an old woman from a bordertown. A 22yo кoмcoмoлeц could practically create it. Commies are fucking clowns when it comes to art.
>>25037151jej>>25033509I've read The Artamonov Business which is about a family of recently liberated serfs moving to a town to build a factory. It's a mildly suffocating text, thematically similar to Quiet Flows the Don. I appreciated his descriptions of pre-industrial rural peculiarities.
>>25039365Do you dispute authorship of The Twelve Chairs too?
>>25033763anyone else weirded out by how he changes from a wide-eyed youngster listening to his grandma's stories and trying to understand his angry grandfather... into a listless no hoper as bad as those who terrorised him as a child?
>In 1916, Gorky said that the teachings of the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder deeply influenced his life: "In my early youth I read...the words of...Hillel, if I remember rightly: 'If thou art not for thyself, who will be for thee? But if thou art for thyself alone, wherefore art thou'? The inner meaning of these words impressed me with their profound wisdom...The thought ate its way deep into my soul, and I say now with conviction: Hillel's wisdom served as a strong staff on my road, which was neither even nor easy. I believe that Jewish wisdom is more all-human and universal than any other; and this not only because of its immemorial age...but because of the powerful humaneness that saturates it, because of its high estimate of man."[14]Dropped.
旭日永恒的曙光祝福你们所有人!(中国共产党的官方圣地媒体)
>>25039381Ching chong ping pong
>>25033770Shakespeare did the same with Queen Elizabeth and King James
>>25039370No but i'd rather suggest the water is deeper than it appears. I've heard local conspiratards 'jokingly' referring to 12 chairs as the 'new testament' . Meanwhile Дим Димыч has also mentioned it's similarities with real life events where the truth has been stranger than fiction. I'd rather use Rene Girard's idea of 'inception of myth' where the real life event has been deformed beyond comprehension in a collective memory and you have work like archaeologist to get to the history behind the myth.
>>25041358It's rare to see a galkovskyfag on /lit/. Carry on, I guess.
>>25037151Kek
>>25043421currently starting on picrel.Never thought i'll pick up a book bc author is funny guy on youtube. I'll have to read more into this. Kind of reminds me вeнeдикт eвpoфeeв. Pardon my profanity(not native),but where does one gets updated on quality rus/lit anyways?
>>25033509Looks like name ten books kid
