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Maria M. Ozhigova
Maria M. Ozhigova, Postgraduate student at the Theory of Literature Department, Philological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, st. Leninskiye Gory, 1, Moscow, Russia; Junior Research Fellow, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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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:
The article contains the analysis of the influence of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy on the work of A.M. Gorky. The author deals with the aesthetic aspect of the influence of Kant’s philosophy on Maxim Gorky’s prose, in particular in the German period of Gorky’s work. Gorky’s heritage is perceived in the light of Immanuel Kant’s influence. A special case of this influence is the text “A Story about a novel”. This text is analyzed in more detail. Gorky’s disagreement with some of the statements of Kant’s philosophy (concerning the nature of creativity and aesthetic views) was largely revealed in this text. The rejection of some aspects of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy related to the understanding of creativity is caused not only by ideological differences, such as the difference in understanding the world and man, but also with different attitudes to aesthetics and the nature of creativity. The Gorky’s “rejection” of Kant’s philosophy is also connected with theoretical and literary concepts, including the creative strategy of the writer, the features and nature of his prose, as well as fundamental discrepancy in the understanding of artistic creativity.