Correspondence between Gorky and Chekhov

The letters in this book reveal multiple levels of knowledge summarized by two great writers who are considered two milestones in world literature. Their value lies in the fact that they were not written to be published, which magnifies their content because it is far from affectation and pedantry and close to the warmth of the spontaneous and honest human flow. Here, in a unique way, we see the essence of the human experience, his fear and dreams, his struggle and boredom, his complaints and his excitement, cast in a literary framework that overlaps in places and times. The letters also include an important dialogue about the art of writing short stories between Chekhov at the height of his literary glory and the emerging Gorky, who was writing his first stories when the letters began.