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“... syntactical blemish), and was only rarely reprinted. Now at last there is a new translation, by Bryan Karetnyk, and everyone can contemplate this strange and moving work.By the time he published his memoir of Tolstoy in 1919, Gorky was a major celebrity but also a scandal. He had made his name in the 1890s, with the novel Foma Gordeyev and a collection ...”

“... without a sense of living speech, and though it is often beautiful, it is at times colourless. Bryan Karetnyk’s translation is readable and sometimes elegant, but small inaccuracies, in a highly philosophical text, where precision is essential, make the underlying ideas sound more vague than they should. One of Gazdanov’s central themes is the ...”