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of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

 IWL RAS

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The Theme of “Asiatism” in the Works of Gorky

  • Classification – name: Literary studies
  • Author: Olga V. Shugan
  • Pages: 541–549
  • 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/10.22455/978-5-9208-0693-2-541-549
  • EDN:

    https://elibrary.ru/MQCQKS
  • Year of publication: 2023
  • Place of publication: Moscow

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  • Shugan, O.V. “The Theme of “Asiatism” in the Works of Gorky.” Maxim Gorky and World Culture: A Collection of Scientific Articles. Ed. L.A. Spiridonova. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023, pp. 541–549. (In Russian) 1 Electronic Optical Disc. Text: Electronic. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0693-2-541-549

Information about the author:

Olga V. Shugan

Olga V. Shugan, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5885-2287

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Abstract:

In the present article it is analyzed the subject «asiatism» in Gorky’s work. It is shown that «asiatism» symbolizing for Gorky all negative qualities: pessimism, fatalism, passivity and stagnancy, continued the old dispute of Westerners and Slavophiles which has escalated at the end of the 19th — the beginning of 20th centuries. Is considered as the contradictory relation to the East during the silver age has influenced on fair of East of Gorky and his concept “two Easts”. In the article the dialectic change of the concept “asiatism” during the different periods of activity of the writer is traced. The idea of “asiatism” was personified for Gorky in the images, in “The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin”, “Town of Okurov”, the cycle “Across Russia”, the epic The Life of Klim Samgin, etc.

Keywords: “asiatism”, “Two souls”, passivity, pessimism, fatalism.

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