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Written by | Maxim Gorky |
Original language | Russian |
Genre | Comedy |
Setting | A railway station five verstas away from the small town of Verkhneye Myamlino |
Reception ( Russian: Встреча, romanized: Vstrecha) is a one-act comedy by Maxim Gorky. [1] It was first published in 1910, in Sovremenny Mir under its original title. Simultaneously it came out as a separate edition under the title Children ( Russian: Дети, romanized: Deti), via the Berlin-based Ladyzhnikov Publishers. [1]
Gorky mentioned it in his 20 November 1910 letter to Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky: "I send you my Reception, perhaps it will make you smile," he wrote from Capri. [2]
Two rival families of the local merchants grudgingly unite to buy a huge plot of land from a local aristocrat, with a view to build a timber factory. The reception at the railway station astounds the Prince (who arrives with a German companion). He is delighted with the way how the people here admire him and are such pure and nice creatures, 'like children'. Some other locals (including a perpetuum mobile inventor) join the party with their pleas and complaints. The celebration turns sour when it transpires that the land has just been sold, to the German man.
Reception | |
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Written by | Maxim Gorky |
Original language | Russian |
Genre | Comedy |
Setting | A railway station five verstas away from the small town of Verkhneye Myamlino |
Reception ( Russian: Встреча, romanized: Vstrecha) is a one-act comedy by Maxim Gorky. [1] It was first published in 1910, in Sovremenny Mir under its original title. Simultaneously it came out as a separate edition under the title Children ( Russian: Дети, romanized: Deti), via the Berlin-based Ladyzhnikov Publishers. [1]
Gorky mentioned it in his 20 November 1910 letter to Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky: "I send you my Reception, perhaps it will make you smile," he wrote from Capri. [2]
Two rival families of the local merchants grudgingly unite to buy a huge plot of land from a local aristocrat, with a view to build a timber factory. The reception at the railway station astounds the Prince (who arrives with a German companion). He is delighted with the way how the people here admire him and are such pure and nice creatures, 'like children'. Some other locals (including a perpetuum mobile inventor) join the party with their pleas and complaints. The celebration turns sour when it transpires that the land has just been sold, to the German man.