Name: Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Brand: Plans for the next issue of his periodical. 1924
Price: 800.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Plans for the next issue of his periodical. 1924
Autograph letter signed to Solomon Gitmanovich Kaplun, Sorrento, 28 September 1924.

In Russian. One page, 277 x 222mm, on squared paper. Provenance: Hermitage auction, 25 April 2019, lot 307.

Discussing plans for the next issue of their periodical, Beseda, including works by Ivanov, Khodasevich and the Romanian author Panait Istrati.

I am returning the proofs of my story and 'The snake'. The order: / Story of the unusual / 'The trip' / 'The snake'. But Vyach[eslav] Ivanov will send on similar terms his operetta: will there be enough space for me, [or] will that make the issue too expensive? I wrote to Ivanov to talk to you about the conditions to be negotiated. 'Codine' is a very long piece and will require some cutting. Make a note of both stories by [Upton] Sinclair, and tomorrow I will send you Galsworthy, a small item. / [Vladislav] Khodasevich will be here between 4 and 10 October; he has some poems. / I am suffering with agonising colitis, and this disturbs my life extraordinarily. / For me to be able to cut the over-long 'Codine', I absolutely must have the beginning.

Codine was a novel by the Romanian writer Panait Istrati (1884-1935), known as 'the Gorky of the Balkans'. The recipient, S.G. Kaplun, was a journalist and publisher, owner of the Berlin publishing house 'Epoch' and publisher with Gorky of the literary and scientific periodical Beseda from 1922 to 1925.

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