· By the season Gorky had completed The Lower Depths, and the company of the Moscow Art Theatre, to achieve authenticity in their depiction of Russia’s criminal and indigent subculture, visited the foul-smelling shelters where beggars, thieves, and tramps lived. When asked by the actors what effect he wanted the play to have on his audience, Gorky answered: “I’ll be satisfied if you can Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, born Aleksei Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod in , is a dark drama that justifies his reputation as a founder of social realism, even if his works can also be regarded as agitprop for the Bolshevik Revolution/5(22). The Lower Depths is Russian playwright Maxim Gorky’s best-known drama. Written in the winter of into the spring of , it depicts a group of poor Russians living in a shelter near the Volga. Produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on Decem, the play was .
The Lower Depths. Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. Gorky's most famous works are a short story collection Sketches and Stories (), plays The Philistines (), The Lower Depths () and Children of the Sun (), a poem The Song of the Stormy Petrel (), his autobiographical trilogy My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (), and a novel Mother ().
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, born Aleksei Peshkov in Nizhny Novgorod in , is a dark drama that justifies his reputation as a founder of social realism, even if his works can also be regarded as agitprop for the Bolshevik Revolution. The Lower Depths, also translated as A Night’s Lodging and At the Bottom, drama in four acts by Maxim Gorky, performed in and published in the same year as Na dne. The play is set in the late 19th century in a dilapidated flophouse and examines society’s outcasts. Title: The Lower Depths A Drama in Four Acts Author: Maksim Gorky Contributor: Oliver M. Sayler Translator: Jenny Covan Release Date: July 1, [EBook #] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOWER DEPTHS *** Produced by Paul Haxo with special thanks to the Internet Archive and the University of Connecticut.
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