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Chaliapin: An Autobiography As Told To Maxim Gorky
320 pages
Published
1988
by Columbus
(first published January 1st 1967)
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Nov 14, 2014
Czarny Pies
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Those who like wild biographies about wildmen.
Recommended to Czarny by:
My mother lent me her copy.
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This is by far the most enjoyable book ever written by the normal dour and humourless Maxim Gorky. Gorsky was a friend off Fyodor Chaliapin who was the possibly the greatest basso profundo of all time and most certainly the most tamous.
Gorky was unquestionably under the impression that this book conformed to the rules of official socialist realism as specified by a law enacted by the Communist Party Congress of 1934 in which it was specified that socialist books must:
-1- have a proletarian as a ...more
Gorky was unquestionably under the impression that this book conformed to the rules of official socialist realism as specified by a law enacted by the Communist Party Congress of 1934 in which it was specified that socialist books must:
-1- have a proletarian as a ...more
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