| Titre | Gor'kij et la critique littéraire marxiste avant la révolution | |
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| Auteur | Michel Aucouturier | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 29, no 1, janvier-mars 1988 Maksim Gor'kij (1868 - 1936) cinquante ans après | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 25-32 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Michel Aucouturier, Gor'kii and the Marxist literary criticism before the Revolution.
The first pro-Marxist or Marxists critics of Gor'kii's work (Solov'ev-Andreevich, Divil'kovskii, Vorovskii) mainly defend the "heroic figure" that Gor'kii has introduced into literature and his Nietzschean ethics of the will to live against the attacks of Populists (Mikhailovskii). The problem of his aesthetics will arise only in connection with the novels Mat' and Ispoved' (1907-1908) in which Vorovskii sees a voluntary sacrifice of the artist to the publicist, thus noting the divorce between aesthetic and ideological values. For its justification, he formulates the theory of the "lag of artistic ideology in relation to scientific ideology" which implicitly questions the generally admitted definition of Gor'kii as a "proletarian writer." Among certain Marxist publicists and critics (for instance, the Menshevik R. Grigor'ev) we thus see the emergence of the theme of "Gor'kii, petty -bourgeois writer," "flesh of the flesh of Okurov," which will be taken up immediately after the Revolution by part of the "proletarian" criticism hostile to Gor'kii. According to the author of the article Gor'kii's example illustrates the frailty of certain key-notions of the Marxist literary criticism. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1988_num_29_1_2128 |
