My Universities - Modern Classics 68

My Universities - Modern Classics 68 Book Description My Universities is the last book of Gorky's trilogy, which begins with My Childhood and continues with While I Earn My Bread, which is considered one of the most beautiful autobiographies written in the Russian language. Gorky's universities are real people who teach him the cruel reality of their own lives. They are homeless idlers and vagabonds who have been pushed out of society... Hunger, cruelty and oppression; They are revolutionaries who question their relations with the state and the church... They are muzhiks who work constantly like galley slaves and are enemies of those who want to live their lives under the guidance of reason... People from this segment of the writer's social circle formed at a time when the ideas that led to the revolution began to sprout. Gorky, who strives to transform the miserable and brutal reality that has been his fate since childhood, into a more beautiful, more humane life, is almost the embodiment of the pre-revolutionary hopes of Russian society. (From the Promotional Bulletin)