Life of Klima Samgin (a set of 3 books)

Maxim Gorky is the largest Russian writer and playwright, known throughout the world, whose works are translated into dozens of languages. “The Life of Klim Samghin” is, according to the author’s definition, the story, which Gorky dedicated eleven years of continuous work (1925–1936) The writer set himself a gigantic task-“to portray with a possible full forty years of Russia"s life, from the 80s to 1918”, not missing a single major event of that time, to cover the whole country-both the capital and the province-and show People of all classes, aspirations and beliefs. At the same time, the work summed up a peculiar result of the long tradition of Russian literature, which once began Pushkin’s Onegin and Lermontovsky Pechorin,-the tradition of image of the Russian intellectual, a soft, lean, liberal, conscientious, but at the same time limp, morally exhausted, paralyzed skepticism. Gorky sympathizes with his hero, and strictly condemns him: for the writer, Samgin becomes one of the symbols of the old, leaving Russia