GORKY DEAD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 161, 19 June 1936, Page 5

GORKY DEAD

? RUSSIAN NOVELIST. I PALE PINK "RED." Reconciled After Bolshevik Revolution. * a PAINTER AND SCULLERYBOY. i — __ . ''**" i * ' 7 Press Association—Copyright, j/ (Received 12.30 p.m. To-day). * , , Moscow, June 18. The death has occurred of Maxim Gorky, noted patriotic l novelist, at of 63. Gorky, before he found his groove in life was successively a painter of ikons, a pedlar, a scullery boy, a gardener, a watchman and a baker's ap prentice. When he commenced to write he turned out lengthy noyels T'ith alarming rapidity. In one year lie wrote eight novels. In search of new ideas in 1907, he visited the United States, and in his. Tiography "Comrades," written the following year, made a paregyric of .American conditions. Some time later 16 wrote that he preferred American flemocrany to Rod Communism. " Under the Czarist regime he was several times interned for seditious publications. But the Revolutions did Dot favourably impress him either and it was only with the utmost difficulty that he was persuaded to take ;■ a chair at the'U.S.S.R. (Leningrad) ■ Academy of Sciences. 1 His best known publications are: "The'Outcasts," "Three Men," "My Childhood" (an autobiography), and "In the World." "Fragments From My Dlaiy," a "denunciation, was published in 1*24. ••'• .^iv.-..