Maxim Gorky’s novel Childhood is among the world’s best autobiographical works.
When I started this book I thought myself to be a fool to read this "bore" book bt when the book moved on I again thougt myself to be a fool but this time for thinking like that.
Story in brief-:
The story opens in the home of the writer’s grandfather Kashirin, a dyer where Gorky lived after his father’s death.Little Alyosha Peshkov , the hero of the book , gazes with eager at the people who make up his world .
Life in pre-revolutionary Russia is revealed to him in all the cruelty and injustice of its social system.
and yet the keener , the child reacts to the ugliness of this world, the more stubbornly and firmly he resists its injustice and dissappointments , the stronger his desire to change his way of life.
GORKY AND HIS WORK-:
Among Gorky’s best works are his autobiographical and literary memories .The trilogy consisting of Childhood & In the world , and the ironically titled My Universities (as Reminiscences of my youth, 1952)
is considered a major artistic achievement because it lacks the excessisve philosophizing of his earlier works and because it contains numerous memorable chracterization .
Reminiscences of Tolsty, Chekhov and Andreyev (1920-1928;trans 1949) , which avoid the reverenital approch to famous writer comman among russian literary critics up to that time , has been hailed as Gorky’s masterpiece .
ChILdHooD IS oNe oF tHe mOvInG dIsCrIptIoN oF BoYhOoD eVeRwRiTten .............
Reading it we enter into Russian life as it really was at the turn of the century, and this is an ’unforgettful experince’.
I enjoy the bOOk every time I read it .Yes , you feel it hassoap-opera kind of story but it goes much beyond.
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