My Childhood eBook Maxim Gorky
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“Say good-by to daddy. You will never see him any more. He is dead — before his time.”
This was Maxim Gorky’s first memory of his childhood.
Born into abject poverty, Gorky was sent to live with his grandparents at five years old.
While his grandmother was a kind woman who had an endless store of tales to tell the young boy, his grandfather, a dictatorial tyrant, used to beat him to a state of unconsciousness.
Thus for the next seven years Gorky’s life was filled with suffering, cruelty and barbarity, with the only solace being his grandmother’s stories.
My Childhood is a masterpiece in Russian social realism that truly depicts the hardships of peasant life in late nineteenth century. Written in vivid prose the book transports the reader to a world that is unimaginable for many in the twenty-first century.
Gorky’s work is essential reading not only for those interested in Russian literature but also for anyone interested in modern history as it depicts how many Russian peasants were living prior to the revolution of 1917.
“With a few words M. Gorky can draw a portrait or sketch an incident so it lives before the reader, and though the portrait is often unpleasant and the incident one of violence, the skill of the artist cannot be denied.” The Spectator
“His 1914 autobiographical masterpiece, Childhood, found millions of readers, including many Russians who had rarely, if ever, read before.” Harvard Magazine
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, more commonly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet author, famous for creating the socialist realism literary method and as an early supporter of the Soviet Union. He was a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature and a vicious critic of the Tsarist Russian Empire. My Childhood first published in English in 1915 was the first part in his autobiography trilogy. Later in life he became critical of Stalinist methods and died in 1936, some suggest he was murdered.
My Childhood eBook Maxim Gorky
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My Childhood eBook Maxim Gorky Reviews
This is necessary reading if you want to understand the Russian soul, but is really hard for my pampered American soul to endure. It did give me some background which I appreciated when I was able to visit his childhood home and appreciate the respect the Russians give to this hero of theirs.
I have been a lover of late 19th, early 20th century literature for sometime, but had never read anything by Gorky. What an oversight. My Childhood is an engrossing and captivating read. It's wonderfully written and almost poetic in it's description of life as a Russian peasant. I'd heartily recommend it.
It is an engrossing view into the hard life of Russian villagers in the late 19th century. Gorsky sees the humanity in them with a keen and tender eye, even though the worst of their brutality towards each other (in particular women and children). He spares the reader nothing the ugliness of poverty, the greed that prosperity brings, the violence of the oppressed towards others, etc. But he also describes the beauty of Russia and of solidarity, as in how the women help and support each other. In a way, the memoir pressages the coming Russian revolution which was still dome decades away.
It is difficult to judge how authentic these youth memoirs are. This book is like a window opening into Russian life in the late nineteenth century showing the poverty of the people and how they managed to survive. The way Gorky depicts his maternal grandparents is magnificent. Especially the believes and ideas of his grandmother are echoes of a now long gone past. In the middle ages and in late antiquity people would understand her way of life better than we 'modern' readers. I enjoyed the book from beginning to end even though I am certainly not a Gorky fan.
This is the heart rending account of a person who not only survived the poverty and miserable conditions of his environment and the cruel treatment by his grandfather but went on to become a great man , compassionate in his treatment of his fellowmen, a great literary figure,
and one of the few moderate and sensible socialist leaders of the pre-stalinist period.Even Lenin respected him though they were at opposite
ends of the political spectrum!.
Like Dostoevsky? Then this is for you. Great literature in every sense -- extremely well written -- a passionate account of Gorky's life in a large family growing up 19th Century Russia. Vividly described through his own eyes as a child suddenly thrust into a hurricane of conflicting, very Russian beliefs, desires, hatreds, traditions and often violent rages. After his father dies when he's a young boy, his mother distances herself from him and his grandmother takes him to her own family in another city, where he imperfectly fits into a tradesman's family consisting of a violent but somehow lovable grandfather, young angry uncles vying for their father's inheritance, tragic nieces . . . . There's an account of beatings from his grandfather you'll never forget!
A few days ago, I finished reading Maxim Gorky's account simply titled "My Childhood." It was heart-rending in its descriptions of poverty and its effects abuse and brokenness; the unrelenting harshness of pre-revolutionary Russia through the eyes of a child. Little Alexey Peshkov, thank goodness, was able to survive it all, growing up to become the mythic Maxim Gorky.
I agree with the editor and translator Graham Hettlinger's assertion that Gorky never lost his love for life, boundless curiosity, and compassion for humanity. A hard Russian childhood created Gorky the committed activist and realist pioneer. He loved the Russian people all his life.
I purchased this inexpensive version only to find it so riddled with errors that it was unreadable. 19 errors on a single page!
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