“Comrades” reveals an ironic humor in its conception and is one of Gorky’s lighter tales. A peasant policeman is dispatched to escort a vagrant without papers to the nearest magistrate, a considerable distance away. As the two talk on the journey, it becomes clear to the listener … and finally to the policeman … the real identity of the vagrant.
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— AK, 6/28/2022Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), whose real name was Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov, is probably the best-known late-nineteenth-century Russian fiction writer among the English-speaking world. His pen name translates as Maxim the Bitter, an attitude reflected in many of his works.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.