ABSTRACT
Before Chékhov died, it seemed as if his example had brought into life a new golden age of realism, of which he was to be but the precursor. Between 1895 and 1905 there appeared one after the other a succession of young writers (born between 1868 and 1878) who attracted all the literary limelight, won world-wide reputations, and sold better than Turgénev or Dostoyévsky had ever sold. The most prominent were Górky and Andréyev—and the whole movement may be called the Górky-Andréyev school. It may be called a school without unduly straining the facts, for all the writers who constituted it have sufficient features in common to mark them off from the older pre-Chékhov school of fiction, whose last considerable representative was Korolénko, as well as from the symbolists and the modern movement in prose that was more or less affected by symbolist influences.
