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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: Marie-Christine Аutant-Мathieu
  • Pages: 214–223
  • 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: Maxim Gorky and World Culture: A Collection of Scientific Articles
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0693-2-214-223
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/GPPULV

  • Year of publication: 2023
  • Place of publication: Moscow
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  • Аutant-Мathieu, M.-C. “Maхim Gorky and Moscow Art Theatre. Cordial Agreement or Complex Relations?” Maxim Gorky and World Culture: A Collection of Scientific Articles. Ed. L.A. Spiridonova. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023, pp. 214–223. (In Russian) 1 Electronic Optical Disc. Text: Electronic. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0693-2-214-223

Information about the author:

Marie-Christine Аutant-Мathieu,   DSc in Philology, Professor, Sorbonne University/CNRS, Research Unit EUR’ORBEM, rue Michelet, 9, 75006 Paris, France.

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Abstract:

Gorky began as a playwright for the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) and was staged in parallel with Chekhov. Thus, the two MAT directors, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, were confronted with two playwriters they appreciated but whose modes of writing diverged. I study the way in which Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in their biographies written in Soviet period, 1926 for My Life in Art and 1936 for My Life in the Russian Theatre, rewrote and embellished their relations with a writer who created difficulties, for his political commitment and for interpretation of his plays. From the middle of the 1920s, Gorky became a defender of the MAT and consequently, the two directors gummed their politico-esthetics divergences and sought to reconcile themselves with Gorky.

Keywords: Moscow Art Theater, A. Chekhov, K. Stanislavsky, V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, My life in Art, From the Past, Soviet cultural policy, At the Bottom, Burghers, Summer Residents, Children of the Sun.

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