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Вряд ли есть "официальный" перевод этой фразы. Дело в том, что переводов Горького на английский слишком много, особенно пьес, особенно пьесы "На дне". К сожалению, сейчас многие забывают, что Горький приобрел мировую известность задолго до революции. В частности, пьеса "На дне" была написана в 1902, переведена на многие языки мира и поставлена во многих странах.

Вот отрывок из очень интересной статьи о Горьком, откуда и взят мною перевод этой фразы:

Moscow's second-hand bookshops don't accept works by Maxim Gorky. Few people read Gorky today, when the 135th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated. Excessive praising of his books in the Soviet times and unfair detraction and mockery of his talent in the new Russia have played their negative role in this. Many people cannot see his real face under the masks of a literary-political apostle and court jester. The face of a man, who could fight and sympathise, create, recklessly believe and despair.

Post-Soviet journalists hurried to add Gorky to the list of unprincipled time-servers and impetuously labelled him "a true servant of totalitarianism". However, the great poet Marina Tsvetayeva, who cannot be reproached for having any love for the Soviet authorities, was convinced that Gorky, not Bunin, should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. "Gorky is the epoch and Bunin is the end of the epoch," Tsvetayeva wrote, adding that the Swedish king could not have awarded the prize to a "red" writer, of course...

It should be pointed out, though, that the main "proletarian writer", officially blessed by Lenin and Stalin, was in no way a political fanatic who wrenched out everything opposed to the general ideology from his soul. Political and public activities did not overshadow his human qualities. It was Gorky who wrote in the hardest post-revolutionary years his "Untimely Thoughts. Notes on the Revolution and Culture", a collection of articles, which criticised the Bolsheviks and their methods. It was Gorky who spoke on behalf of the Russian intelligentsia to Lenin and incurred anger of the world's proletarian leader.

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