my childhood

“No one other than Gorky succeeded in fusing the world culture of the age and the revolution in such a magnificent way.” -Romain Rolland- The first of the trilogy in which Maxim Gorki tells his life story, My Childhood begins with the oldest memory in his memory, what happened on the day his father died. The life of three-year-old Aleksey Maksimovich Peskov, who lost his father, will now continue in his grandfather's crowded house; The troubles he witnessed and the violence he was exposed to led him to take the name Gorky, meaning "pain", and made him Maxim Gorki. The poverty, inheritance fights, violence, birth, death and the ordinariness of murders described here describe not only the house of his grandfather Kasirins, but also 19th century Russia. Gorky, the pioneer of social realism, brings the Russia of that period to life in the eyes of the reader with his poetic narration, makes the reader feel the cold, and depicts the whippings he received in his lines. He reflects the joys of his childhood and the love he feels mostly through his grandmother. Gorky's childhood, who says in My Childhood, "It was my grandmother's disinterested love of the world that enriched me and improved my ability to endure a difficult life," ends with him leaving his grandfather's house in the last lines. “You are three-dimensional, so when you describe something, it becomes visible and tangible. This is real art.” -From Chekhov's Letter to Gorky, 3 December 1898-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Media Type: Paperback

Number of Pages: 275

Size: 14x20

Number of Printings: 1st Printing

First Print Year: 2017