Mother by Maxim Gorky Hardcover Book

Description: Mother by Maxim Gorky Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appletons Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. The work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number of films. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his collaborators based their 1932 play The Mother on this novel. Modern critics consider it possibly the least successful of Gorkys novels, however, they call it Gorkys most important novel written before 1917. Gorky wrote the novel on a trip to the United States in 1906. The political agenda behind the novel was clear. In 1905, after the defeat of Russias first revolution, Gorky tried to raise the spirit of the proletarian movement by conveying the political agenda among the readers through his work. He was trying to raise spirit among the revolutionaries to battle the defeatist mood. Gorky was personally connected to the novel as it is based on real life events, revolving around Anna Zalomova and her son Pyotr Zalomov. Gorky, being a distant relative of Anna Zalomova who visited Gorkys family when he was a child, had a deeper connection to the story. The event took place during a May Day demonstration in Sormovo in 1902. The shipbuilding town of Sormovo was near Gorkys native town, Nizhny Novgorod, where after the arrest of Piotr Zalomov by tsarist police, his mother, Anna Zalomova followed him into revolutionary activity. The novel was first published by Appleton Magazine in the US and later by Ivan Ladyzhnikov Publishers in Germany. In Russia, it was published legally only after the February Revolution because of the Tsarist censorship. Mother is the only big novel of Gorky on the Russian revolutionary movement; however, of all his novels, it is possibly the least successful. Nevertheless, it remains the best known work of Gorky among the authors other novels. Modern critics consider it Gorkys most important pre-revolutionary novel because of the vivid image of his "God-Builder" ideas. After Gorkys return to the Soviet Union, the novel was declared by authorities as "the first work of Socialist realism", and Gorky as its "founder". Nevertheless, Gorky called Mother "one of his worst things". Numerous artistic flaws of Mother and Gorkys other novels, written before 1910 have been widely described in reviews and critical essays by Korney Chukovsky, Andrei Sinyavsky, Ilya Serman, Marylin Minto and many others. As Minto notes, Nilovnas portrayal is very successful, but the other characters are one-dimensional. (wikipedia.org) FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN Author Maxim Gorky Pages 296 Publisher Bibliotech Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9798888301081 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-01-06 Imprint Bibliotech Press DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139002540;

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