At the bottom. Stories. Gorky M.

more than a hundred years have passed since Maxim Gorky, the play “At the bottom”, and her heroes have not disappeared and are still recognizable: homeless people, prostitutes-people rejected by society-as if they had moved in time without having lost their problems, from the Gorky brothel to the streets of the modern metropolis. And the question remained just as relevant about the need to choose his position: "A person - it sounds proud!" Or "a person needs to be sorry"? What to choose - a lie in salvation or bitter truth?

Players “Besmachans” and “Vassa Zheleznov” always show the actual conflict between generations and the decay of old life amid the emergence of a new one.

in the book in the book The writer's earlier romantic works are also included: “Makar Miracle”, “Old woman Isergil”, “Chelkash”, “Song about the Falcon” and “Song of the Petrel”.

The works of Vladislav Khodasevich about Gorky. < /p>