Maxim Gorki

[[en]] * Born: 16 March 1868 * Birthplace: Nizhny Novgorod (now Gorky), Russia * Death: June 1936 * Best Known As: Russian writer known for his socialist realism Name at birth: Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov Maxim Gorky (also spelled Maksim Gorki) is one of the giants of 20th century Russian literature and theater, known for his realistic depictions of how terrible it is to be poor and oppressed. Gorky himself grew up in rough times and was a lifelong spokesperson for the underclass. His political activism led to several years of exile, in spite of his popularity with Russian readers. By 1900 Gorky was a famous literary figure, thanks in part to help from Anton Chekhov. His short stories and his first novel, Foma Gordeyev (1902) gave him notoriety as well as critical success, but his outspoken opposition to the rule of Nicholas II led to his exile to the island of Capri (1907-13). After the 1917 revolution Gorky's criticism of his friend V. I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks led to another...

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Maxime Alexandre

Maxime Alexandre (Wolfisheim, 1899 - Strasbourg, 1976) est un poète et auteur dramatique alsacien. Naissance de Maxime Moïse Alexandre le 24 janvier 1899 à Wolfisheim, fils unique d'une famille juive libérale et francophile mais germanophone, alors que l'Alsace est sous souveraineté allemande (Deutsches Reich) depuis 1871. L'allemand est sa langue maternelle, dans laquelle il compose ses premiers poèmes à douze ans. Pendant la première Guerre mondiale, il part à Lausanne avec sa famille où il apprend le français et rencontre René Schickelé qui le présente à Romain Rolland. À Zurich, il rencontre les précurseurs du mouvement Dada dont Jean Arp. De retour à Strasbourg en 1918, il poursuit ses études et rencontre Louis Aragon qui l'invite à le rejoindre à Paris, ce qu'il fait au début des années 1920. Il décide d'écrire alors uniquement en français. Il rencontre à Paris André Breton, Robert Desnos, Benjamin Péret et le groupe qui va fonder le surréalisme. Il prend part aux activités des...

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Publilius Syrus

Scriitor latin, de origine siriană. Autor de mimi (farse), care abundau în maxime morale (sententiae) foarte apreciate atât de contemporanii săi, cât și de posteritate. Engleză Publilius (less correctly Publius) Syrus, a Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him. His mimes, in which he acted himself, had a great success in the provincial towns of Italy and at the games given by Caesar in 46 BC. Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an improviser, and received from Caesar himself the prize in a contest in which he vanquished all his competitors, including the celebrated Decimus Laberius. All that remains of his works is a collection of Sentences (Sententiae), a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse. This collection must have been made at a very early date, since it was known to Aulus Gellius in the 2nd century AD....

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Maxim Gorki

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