Gorky Motives in Prose about Tramps Ai Wu
- Authors: Meskin V.A.1, Yiqing C.1
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Affiliations:
- RUDN University
- Issue: Vol 30, No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 262-270
- Section: LITERARY CRITICISM
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2312-9220/article/view/319125
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2025-30-2-262-270
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/IMLJCD
- ID: 319125
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Abstract
Сompared the originality of the depiction of people at the bottom in the works of Maxim Gorky and the Chinese writer Ai Wu (1904-1992). From the comparison it follows that the famous Chinese prose writer of the twentieth century had reason to consider himself a student of the Russian prose writer. Both authors, Gorky in Russia, Ai Wu in China, acted as artists of marginalized people, homeless, and, what is especially important, not only rejected, but also rejecting. An analysis of a large number of stories by the Russian and Chinese writers reveals many creative similarities in themes, problems, poetics, and reveals the identity of their socio-philosophical views. Gorky and Ai Wu in a similar manner decorate stories about ordinary everyd ay life with appeals to bright pictures of nature, to musical and song principles. According to the teachings of A. Veselovsky on the comparative study of literature, here we can speak with certainty about the genetic and typological connections of the two writers.
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About the authors
Vladimir A. Meskin
RUDN University
Email: c1123485073@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2260-8060
Grand PhD in Philology, Professor at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, Faculty of Philology
6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationCai Yiqing
RUDN University
Author for correspondence.
Email: c1123485073@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0002-3769-4766
Postgraduate Student at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature, Faculty of Philology
6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationReferences
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