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He was also a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement and he publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanovs Bolshevik wing of the party.
For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia, in , he returned to Russia on Joseph Stalins personal invitation and died there in June Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov on 28 March , in Nizhny Novgorod and he was brought up by his grandmother and ran away from home at the age of twelve in He described the lives of people in the lowest strata and on the margins of society, revealing their hardships, humiliations, and brutalisation, but also their inward spark of humanity.
Gorkys reputation grew as a literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russias social, political. By , he was associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. At the heart of all his work was a belief in the inherent worth, in his writing, he counterposed individuals, aware of their natural dignity, and inspired by energy and will, with people who succumb to the degrading conditions of life around them.
But if thou art for thyself alone, wherefore art thou and he publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and was arrested many times. Gorky befriended many revolutionaries and became a friend of Vladimir Lenin after they met in He exposed governmental control of the press, in , Gorky was elected an honorary Academician of Literature, but Tsar Nicholas II ordered this annulled.
In protest, Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Korolenko left the Academy, from to , Gorkys writings became more optimistic. Andrei Bely — Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, better known by the pen name Andrei Bely, was a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic.
His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century, Boris Bugaev was born in Moscow, into a prominent intellectual family. His father, Nikolai Bugaev, was a mathematician who is regarded as a founder of the Moscow school of mathematics.
His mother was not only highly intelligent but a society beauty. Young Boris was a polymath whose interests included mathematics, biology, chemistry, music, philosophy and he would go on to take part in both the Symbolist movement and the Russian school of neo-Kantianism. Bugaev became friendly with Alexander Blok and his wife, he fell in love with her, Nikolai Bugaev was well known for his influential philosophical essays, in which he decried geometry and probability and trumpeted the virtues of hard analysis. Despite—or because of—his fathers mathematical tastes, Boris Bugaev was fascinated by probability and particularly by entropy and it was Mikhail Solovyov who gave Bugaev his pseudonym Andrei Bely.
Belys symbolist novel Petersburg is generally considered to be his masterpiece, the book employs a striking prose method in which sounds often evoke colors.
The novel is set in the hysterical atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Petersburg. At one point, Nikolai is pursued through the Petersburg mists by the hooves of the famous bronze statue of Peter the Great. He supported the Bolshevik rise to power and later dedicated his efforts to Soviet culture and he died, aged 53, in Moscow. Bely was one of the influences on the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The Andrei Bely Prize, one of the most important prizes in Russian literature, was named after him, fyodor, poet and main character, praises the system Bely created for graphically marking off and calculating the half-stresses in the iambs.
Bely found that the diagrams plotted over the compositions of the great poets frequently had the shapes of rectangles, nabokovs essay Notes on Prosody follows for the large part Belys essay Description of the Russian iambic tetrameter.
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