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Oksana S. Kudlay
Oksana S. Kudlay, Postgraduate student of the Department of Theory of Literature, Philological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia; Junior Research Fellow, Institute of World Literature. А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 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 German period of life and work of A.M. Gorky remains to be the least studied part. Egodocuments of the representatives of Russian Berlin help to recreate the context of the cultural life of 1922–1923. V.B. Shklovsky, being a key figure of the Russian diaspora, stands out among others due to his inconsistency, ambiguity. Despite the large amount of evidence collected about Shklovsky and Gorky, there are still no studies that would restore the documentary chronicle of the development and rupture of relations between the writers. The complexity of relationships between Gorky and Shklovsky should be perceived as the latter’s desire to destroy the clichéd image of the writer formed both in Soviet Russia and among the representatives of the Russian emigration.