Gorki biography

BORN: 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

DIED: 1936, Moscow, USSR

NATIONALITY: Russian

GENRE: Drama, fiction, poetry

MAJOR WORKS:
The Lower Depths (1902)
Mother (1907)
In the World (1916)
My Universities (1923)
My Childhood (1928)

Overview

Maxim Gorky (a pseudonym for Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) is recognized as one of the earliest and foremost exponents of socialist realism in literature.

His brutal yet romantic portraits of Russian life and his sympathetic depictions of the working class had an inspirational effect on the oppressed people of his native land. From 1910 until his death, Gorky was considered Russia's greatest living writer.

Maxim Gorky - Wikipedia

Gorky the tramp, the rebel, is as much a legend as the strong, individual characters presented in his stories. His

hero was a new type in the history of Russian literature—a figure drawn from the masses of a growing industrialized society; his most famous novel, Mother (1907), was the first in that country to po Maxim Gorky Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life ...

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