Auction Date:2011 Aug 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Important Russian/Soviet author and activist (1868–1936). Though his criticism of the Communist government led to a relationship marked by conflict and unease, he was ultimately embraced (though closely monitored) by the Stalinist regime, and Stalin himself was a pallbearer at Gorky’s funeral. LS in French, signed “Massimo Gorki,” on both sides of a sheet of lightly-lined graph paper, 8.5 x 11, March 24, 1926. Letter to Italian journalist Ugo Ojetti. Translated, in full: “I have received your letter with offer to write an article for ‘Corriere della Sera’ [large daily paper in Milan]. In this letter you are talking about your friendship. But in an article that you did on Mrs. Zenaïde Hippius’ book who has made it a business to heap lies and calumnies on me–in that article there are the following words [quoted in the original Italian]: ‘Mrs. Hippius is mostly fierce with Gorki. She describes so many bad tales about him that, for respect to his books, I don’t dare repeat here. Truth? Legends?’ I am of course flattered, flattered about the respect that you have for my books, but I do not hear in your words any feeling of respect towards me–the man that you know. If I were you–before offering collaboration to someone and before reminding that person of your friendship–I would have asked: how much truth is there in all that they write about you the Hippius, the Paley and so many more? Believe me it is not my intention to offend you in speaking that way –but it hurts me a lot to learn that the ‘politicians’ gossip had rooted their influence on your feeling towards me.” In fine condition, with intersecting mailing folds, pencil notation to top of page, a mild shade of toning, and a small chip to left edge. Ojetti, was a prominent Italian art critic and journalist who included an affectionate chapter about Gorki in his 1928 book, As They Seemed to Me. Despite the admiration, Gorki certainly seems to take offense to certain comments made by his friend!
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