The study of the critical article "Un autre Gorki" by French Gorky scholar M. Niqueux as well as comments written by the translator to each story and autobiographical letter is being conducted, prefaced as an introduction to the collection of Gorky’s stories "Veilleur de nuit et autres r?cits autobiographiques" ("The Night Guardian and Other Autobiographical Stories") (2009), which he compiled. The collection includes the following autobiographical works by M. Gorky: "Statement of facts and thoughts, from the interaction of which the best pieces of my heart have dried up" (1893), "Biographer" (1893), "At the Schemer. Sketch" (1896), "From the memoirs of <John of Kronstadt>" (1922), "The Hermit" (1922), "The Watchman" (1923), "A true account of the case with Postmaster Pavlov" (1924-1925). The aim of the work is to present and comment the idea of M. Niqueux about the embodiment of the philosophical concept of "Promethean" epoch in the works of Maksim Gorky, as well as to present and comment the thesis of Gorky scholar that Gorky’s utopian belief in the limitless possibilities of reason and rational world reconstruction became the reason of his personal tragedy, embodied in the autobiographical works. The research leads to the conclusion that French expert on Gorky and translator M. Niqueux tries to show the modern reader "another" Gorky, paying a special attention to the ideological and artistic uniqueness of the philosophical views of the early Gorky’s works, considering the themes of his works through the prism of the author’s individual style. The author applies historical and functional, typological, receptive and biographical methods.
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