SOVIET INTERPRETERS.
GORKY'S APPEAL TO WRITERS MOSCOW, August 21. Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer, appeared to-dav before the All-Umon Congress of Soviet Writers and exhorted young authors to devote themselves to Socialist realism. He urged them to give the world a true picture of a proletarian civilisation which had banished private property and'all bourgeois tradi-
tions. Emphasising the difference between children of the Soviet Union and those under capitalistic Governments, he urged that the former be truthfully pictured. He stressed the greatly altered position of women in the U.S.S.R., and suggested that writers devote greater care to depicting their changed psychology. The congress will continue for 11 days, and the writers' union will be entirely reorganised in accordance with Joseph Stalin's statement that "writers are engineers of human souls," and must "consolidate their efforts to forward the progress of the new social order and interpret it truthfully to the capitalistic world."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19340928.2.118
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 230, 28 September 1934, Page 9
Word Count
151SOVIET INTERPRETERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 230, 28 September 1934, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.