Of all Gorky's novels, The Artomonovs is the most impressive and dramatic. In this book Gorky displays at their best the power of creating character and the gift for managing scenes of energetic action which won world-wide admiration for his early stories. His distinctive blend of humor and tragedy, violence and pity, exuberance and introspection, is here put at the service of a grander and more moving theme than he had hitherto attempted, the tragic failure of Russia's middle classes in the decades before the Revolution, ...
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Of all Gorky's novels, The Artomonovs is the most impressive and dramatic. In this book Gorky displays at their best the power of creating character and the gift for managing scenes of energetic action which won world-wide admiration for his early stories. His distinctive blend of humor and tragedy, violence and pity, exuberance and introspection, is here put at the service of a grander and more moving theme than he had hitherto attempted, the tragic failure of Russia's middle classes in the decades before the Revolution, seen in the small-town microcosm of a family of textile manufacturers. The rise and fall of the Artomonovs is seen, across one of the Great Divides of history. The Revolution is a cataclysm in which three generations of Artomonov enterprise are inevitably swept away. Thereby the events of their lives are given a sharp edge of finality, rarely to be found in fiction.
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Add this copy of The Artamonovs to cart. $16.95, very good condition, Sold by CorgiPack rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fulton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Liberty Book Club.
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VG in VG jacket. Dust jacket condition: VG. Alan Hodge, the British critic, says, "Of all of Gorky's novels...the most impressive and dramatic." It is both of those things--impressive in its wide view of Russian life culminating in the Revolution and dramatic in the tale it tells of three generations of Russian mill owners--but it is also an excellent example of Gorky's main theme, which, according to George Lukacs, is to show "that men can no longer live in the way in which they have lived in the past." The Artamonovs not only demonstrates this in the subtle interplay of individual life in the social and class matrix, but it also illustrates Gorky's great quality of portraying change, development, in character and social scene. Gorky's characters actually grow up from childhood, take on new traits, evolve them before the reader's very eyes through the intricate and devious paths of individual development in society. This is particularly true of this story of old Ilia Artamonov, his three sons, Peter, Nikita, and Alexey, and his grandsons. SAYS Alan Hodge, in the introduction to the Novel Library edition (Hamish Hamilton, London) of the novel, "In this book Gorky displays at their best the power of creating character and the gift for managing scenes of energetic action which won world-wide acclaim for his early stories. His distinctive blend of humor and tragedy, violence and pity, exuberance and introspection, is here put at the service of a grander and more moving theme than he had hitherto attempted. It is as if the triumph of the Soviets had given the signal of release for the masterpiece among his novels.
Add this copy of The Artamonovs to cart. $22.05, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1952 by Foreign Languages Publishing House.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of The Artamonovs to cart. $34.95, good condition, Sold by J.E. Miles, A Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from OCEANSIDE, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Liberty Book Club.
