Old woman Isergil: Stories

Alexey Maksimovich Gorky (real name - Peshkov) (1868-1936) - one of the most significant and famous Russian writers in the world, the five -time nominee of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author of the trilogy "Childhood. In people. My universities", poems" Song of the Petrel ", plays" at the bottom". "Meshchans", "Vassa Zheleznova", "Children of the Sun", novels "Life of Klim Samghin", "The Artamonov case", "Mother", many stories. The future writer was born in Nizhny Novgorod, in the family of a carpenter, lived with his grandfather and grandmother for three years - his father died early. Alyosha’s childhood was difficult: already at 11 children he “went to people "and who just didn’t become: a student of an icon painter, a dye, a fisherman in an artel, a loader, a bakery, a burglary, a builder, a weigtor, an oil worker, a journalist, etc. he wandered a lot, later, later, later These impressions gave the ground to his works. Peshkov did not even finish the primary parish school, but continuously read Nietzsche, Gartman, Schopenhauer, Byron, and began to write at 18, repeating until the end of the days that he did not “write”, but only “learns to write”. “Makar Mira” is a poetized gypsy drama - the very first published story of the 24 -year -old Gorky, signing which he took such a speaking pseudonym. Similar in order, the old woman Izergil was written two years later. In addition to the life history of Isergil herself, it includes legends: about the arrogant son of Orl Larre and about the selfless Danko, offering three points of view: "Live outside of people and for themselves" -" live with people, but for yourself " -" live with people and people for people". “Chelkash ", created in just two days, is fundamentally different from these lyrical narratives: this is a tough realistic story about one day of a contractor, a former peasant, and it was based on the events of the life of a real tramp, who was a grief neighbor in a bunk when it He got to the hospital. The story published in the journal "Russian wealth" The story brought the young writer the first literary fame