gorky, meeting him in his old age, reports his conversation as unpleasantly obscene, and his whole attitude toward women one of furtive and unwholesome slyness.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
In fact, there came a time when the attention of the literary world, especially among the younger generation, became so wrapped up in his works that gorky and Tchekoff sank to a second level.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
There was need of a man, a writer-like gorky several years later-born right in the midst of this movement, who would be the very product of it, and for whom its ideas would be a reason for existence.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky