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Dwie metody uwspółcześniania klasyki - sceniczne realizacje utworów Maksyma Gorkiego w Polsce po roku 1989 (na wybranych przykładach)
Two Methods to Render the Classics Contemporary - Stage Adaptations of Maxim Gorky's Works in Poland after 1989 (Selected Cases)

Author(s): Małgorzata Semczuk
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Summary/Abstract: TWO METHODS TO RENDER THE CLASSICS CONTEMPORARY – STAGE ADAPTATIONS OF MAXIM GORKY’S WORKS IN POLAND AFTER 1989 (SELECTED CASES) Summary Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov) is a phenomenon related partly to a private person, partly to an author existing through his texts and partly to a legend, which started to form right after his first work was published and was detrimentally deflected in the 1930s, when he was acclaimed the leading writer of socialist realism and the author of its doctrine. One of his fields of interest was playwriting. In Poland his works were staged 22 times during the last twenty years, frequently with a view to find their perpetual aspects. In the article two cases of such attempts to make Gorky contemporary are discussed, one of them successful and the other one – a failure. Trans. M. Bucholc

  • Issue Year: 435/2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 23-30
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish