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Gorki's Unfinished Novel
Kaun, Alexander | February 13, 1929 issue

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The novel "Klim Samgin" is intended as a picture of the last forty years of Russia--a huge canvas. The first volume appeared in 1927, and the second recently. They contain over eleven hundred pages, and bring us just to the revolution of 1905. "Klim Samgin" is not a regular historical novel, with the past crystallized and sharp edged. The author places us in the position of contemporaries, our vision limited by proximity. We move with the events, downstream, with no chance for detachment and analysis in retrospect--a method that makes the story both vivid and vague. We feel as if we were in the panorama rather than outside of it.

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KLIM Samgin (Book); GORKY, Maksim, 1868-1936; FICTION; INTERNATIONAL relations; SOVIET Union -- History; SOVIET Union
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