Lot 349
Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936) Russian author and playwright. Gorky's works, featuring vital, almost idealized portrayals of the Russian common people and deeply poetic sensibility, are the foundation of the Socialist Realism school of art and literature.
Typed Letter Signed ("M. Gorky"). One page, small folio, n.p., n.d. (12/29?). To L.F. Letvukov. Signed in blue pencil. Accompanied by certified translation from Oliver Weiss Historical Translations. Five horizontal and one vertical fold, all with some degree of edge separation, repairs to some areas of separation on verso, and several areas of staining and soft creasing, chips at edges. Condition is fair to poor.
Responding to Letvukov regarding the establishment of traveling ("floating") schools for ex-convicts, Gorky writes: "…the ex-prisoners, as a whole, will reject the educated life and will not follow through on the specific goals of reaching higher working qualifications…I believe that it would be socially helpful and economically cheaper to organize the prisoners into groups of hunters that would hunt for fur animals and birds…they should form schools for catching and selling of fish…" This proves an interesting letter from Gorky as it concerns temperament and personality of one of the underclasses he depicted in his plays and novels.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,250.
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