Book description
"My Universities" concludes Gorky's autobiographical trilogy whose first book is Childhood. Alexei Peshkov—the future writer Maxim Gorky—lost both his parents when he was little more than a child. He worked as a boy in a shoe shop, then as a dishwasher on a Volga steamboat, and then was apprenticed to…
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1 author picked My Universities as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There were a few books that were able to carry me off into an entirely new cultural environment without reducing my interest in its multi-faceted characters and the seemingly trivial biographical stories. For me, Maxim Gorki, the artist, is a monolith in literature, and this book is a marvel.
The protagonist, young Gorki, has escaped the narrow and backward childhood in rural, almost medieval, Russia and tries to study at a university. It is his insatiable will to learn, to understand, which makes him so special. But every move towards university, towards more knowledge, turns out to be in vain.…
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