THE IMAGE OF THE RUSSIAN PROVINCIAL TOWN IN THE PRE-OCTOBER PROSE OF M. GORKY
A significant component of Gorky’s artistic consciousness before-October years was a special understanding of the artistic space represented in his works is very diverse. Within the framework of this article we will identify only the most expressive features of Gorky’s poetics, manifested in the creation of the image of the Russian provincial city. Gorky as urbanist of the provincial Russia is an extraordinary artist and thinker. Тне Russian life was reflected in her deep intrinsic laws in his works. The image of the city is an integral part of its artistic world. The collective typological features of this image are a complex fusion of not so much a visually-panoramic «background» value as a multifaceted-symbolic, subtext-associative one.