Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-14 | Page 9 | Maxim Gorky Censures Contemporary Authors

MAXIM GORKY CENSURES CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS MOSCOW June 14 Maxim 1 P Maxim l Gorky dean of Russian writers today directed a vigorous broadside of at criticism criticism cism against contemporary soviet literature literature lit lit- Soviet writers drink too much and they are given to fulsome praise of each other with the result that incompetent writers receive too much attention the veteran of Russian let let- letters letters fers said in m an article published both by the and the Pravda The criticism came from Gorky's pen on the eve of ot a writers' writers congress here the object of which is to organize organize or or- authors