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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:

The article for the first time examines the history of Gorky’s relationship with the publishing house “Malik,” with an emphasis on the history of the publishing house itself. Ahead is a detailed study of Gorky’s industrial relations with the Malik publishing house. The article pays attention to the peculiarities of publishing Gorky’s works abroad in the 20s, but, first of all, attention is drawn to the high rating of the publishing house, the brilliant circle of authors united around him, and the important role played by the publishing house “Malik” in the history of German literature. The publishing house “Malik,” which grew out of the magazine, headed the left-wing literature of the Weimar Republic, played an important role in the promotion of avantgarde art, including Dadaism, having managed to combine in its publishing policy the revolutionary literature of Germany with the publication of the best representatives of Soviet literature, including Maxim Gorky, Isaac Babel, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Sholokhov et al. Gorky’s relationship with the Malik publishing house expands the European cultural context of his perception. Additionally, they testify to the scale of the writer’s personality.