Childhood

Author: Maxim Gorky (Soviet Union)
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: My Childhood tells the story of the growth of an isolated child, "I." The novel examines the entire society and life from the unique perspective of a child. "I" lives with his maternal grandfather in a family filled with hatred and thick petty bourgeois customs, a suffocating household. Additionally, the novel depicts the corruption, decline, and process of demise of the entire society at that time. Through the narration of "I's" painful childhood life, the novel actually reflects the difficult life of the author's own childhood and his relentless pursuit of light and truth, while also presenting a broad social panorama of late 19th-century Russian society.