The life of Klima Samgin. Gorky M.

“At first, no one will understand this novel, they will scold... And after fifty years they will say:“ There was such a writer Maxim Gorky - he wrote a lot, and everything is bad and what remains of him was the novel “Life of Klima Samghin ""

m. Gorky

the last work of the author, the idea of ​​creating which arose shortly after the first Russian revolution. Gorky initially wanted to call him “The History of the Empty Soul” and planned it as “Roman of the Century”. It depicts not only the fate of an individual against the backdrop of the historical events of Russia since the 1880s. Until February 1918, but also the spiritual life of the Russian intelligentsia, as well as the theme of a people capable of changing the course of history. Around the novel there are still debates - whether the author’s failure or, on the contrary, is one of the main Russian books of the twentieth century? Gorky’s creation, from which a winged phrase “went into the people”: “Was there a boy?”, Undoubtedly, a complex and completely unsolved.