Friday 21 March 2014

Library will be displaying books from library’s collection by two great authors namely Maxim Gorky and Henrik Ibsen. This is to mark their birth anniversaries in the month of March. All the user community of our college is hereby requested to please visit the library to peruse through the collection.


Henrik Ibsen (image copied from Wikipedia)

Henrik Ibsen is a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare  and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play.  Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler Emperor and Galilean, Ghosts, The Wild Duck etc. are the famous works of Henrik Ibsen. 

Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky’s real name was Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. He was a Russian and Soviet writer.  The Socialist realism literary method was founded by him. In his works he has described the lives of people in the lowest strata and on the margins of society, revealing their hardships, humiliations, and brutalization, but also their inward spark of Humanity. Some of his works include- The Mother, The Old Man, The Life of a Useless Man, The Last Ones, Through Russia, etc

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