My Childhood Maxim Gorky 9781543086904 Books
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Out of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world — nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to conquer, as it were, the placid, self- satisfied literatures of to-day, and bring new life to pale, bloodless frames. Like Byron’s impassioned utterances, “borne on the tones of a wild and quite artless melody,” is Gorky’s mad, unbridled, powerful voice, as he sings of the “madness of the brave,” of the barefooted dreamers, who are proud of their idleness, who possess nothing and fear nothing, who are gay in their misery, though miserable in their joy. Gorky’s voice is not the calm, cultivated, well-balanced voice of Chekhov, the Russian De Maupassant, nor even the apostolic, well- meaning, but comparatively faint voice of Tolstoy, the preacher it is the roaring of a lion, the crash of thunder. In its elementary power is the heart. rending cry of a sincere but suffering soul that saw the brutality of life in all its horrors, and now flings its experiences into the face of the world with unequalled sympathy and the courage of a giant. For Gorky, above all, has courage; he dares to say that he finds the vagabond, the outcast of society, more sublime and significant than society itself. His Bosyak, the symbolic incarnation of the Over-man, is as naive and as bold as a child — or as a genius. In the vehement passions of the magnanimous, compassionate hero in tatters, in the aristocracy of his soul, and in his constant thirst for Freedom, Gorky sees the rebellious and irreconcilable spirit of man, of future man — in these he sees something beautiful, something powerful, something monumental, and is carried away by their strange psychology. For the barefooted dreamer’s life is Gorky’s life, his ideals are Gorky’s ideals, his pleasures and pains, Gorky’s pleasures and pains. And Gorky, though broken in health now, buffeted by the storms of fate, bruised and wounded in the battle-field of life, still like Byron and like Lermontov, “— seeks the storm As though the storm contained repose.”
My Childhood Maxim Gorky 9781543086904 Books
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My Childhood Maxim Gorky 9781543086904 Books 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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