Abstract
The paper explores the reception of Maxim Gorky’s literary works in Poland in 1900– 2018. At the beginning of the 20th century Gorky was among the most-translated Russian authors. Translations of his works were published in the former Polish territories under all partitions (Russian, Prussian and Austrian). In the years 1918–1939/1945, despite anti-Soviet attitudes of a significant part of Polish society, Gorky was still very popular. In the times of the Polish People’s Republic (1945–1989), the writer was characterized by the historians of Russian literature as a classic Soviet writer and the founder of the Socialist Realism. Polish scholars usually repeated views of their Soviet colleagues. Recently Gorky’s works attract attention rather of Polish writers and publicists (Józef Hen, Adam Michnik, Sylwia Frołow, Krzysztof Varga) than of historians of literature.
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