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A.M. Gorky Institute
of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

IWL RAS Publishing

A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

 IWL RAS

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  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Natalia N. Primochkina
  • Pages: 71–96
  • Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
  • Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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  • Language of the publication: Russian
  • Type of document: Research Article
  • Collection: A.M. Gorky in Germany: the Writer and his Environment in the Socioсultural and Literary-Media Space
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0724-3-71-96
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/PLCOSH

  • Year of publication: 2023
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Primochkina, N.N. “M. Gorky and the Art of German Expressionism: Parallels and Intersections.” A.M. Gor’kii v Germanii: pisatel’ i ego okruzhenie v sotsio-kul’turnom i literaturno-mediinom prostranstve [A.M. Gorky in Germany: the Writer and his Environment in the Sociocultural and Literary-Media Space]. Ex. ed. Oleg A. Kling. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023, pp. 71–96. (In Russian) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0724-3-71-96

Information about the author:

Natalia N. Primochkina, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5536-7657

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Acknowledgements:

This article was prepared in A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences as part of the Russian Science Foundation grant (RSF, project № 21-18-00131, “A.M. Gorky in Germany: the Writer and his Environment in the Socioсultural and Literary-Media Space”).

Abstract:

Based on archival documents and materials of M. Gorky’s personal library, the article examines the question of the writer’s attitude to German expressionism, the brightest trend in German art of the early twentieth century. The facts of Gorky’s creative and personal contacts with leading German theater directors M. Reinhardt and E. Piscator, with revolutionary expressionist writers I. Becher, E. Toller, etc. are considered, the interest of the Russian writer in various types of German expressionist art is revealed: literature, theater and cinema. The analysis of Gorky’s works in the context of the work of the German Expressionists reveals a certain similarity in their ideological and aesthetic views, reveals their common anti-war, protest and humanistic pathos aimed at protecting the human person suffering in the world deformed by wars and revolutions.

  • Keywords: M. Gorky, German Expressionism, M. Reinhardt, E. Piscator, I. Becher, R. Vinet, O. Kokoshka, A. Schoenberg, A. Loos.

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