Literature
The Confession · Исповедь
Maxim Gorky
Translated by Rose Strunsky
A foundling who loses his wife and child goes wandering across Russia in search of God, and finds him at last in the people: Gorky’s novel of the God-builders, in Russian and English.
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- Russian: Максим Горький, «Исповедь» (1908), in the text Gorky prepared for his collected works (Kniga edition); from Wikisource. The editors’ commentary is left out.
- English: Rose Strunsky’s translation, The Confession (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1916), Project Gutenberg #55828. Her introduction is left out. The Russian has no chapter breaks of its own, so the whole book is aligned by meaning and each Russian sentence sits beside the English chapter that renders it.