Mother

novel by Gorky
Also known as: “Mat”

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discussed in biography

  • Gorky, Maxim
    In Maxim Gorky: Plays and novels

    Mat (1906; Mother) is probably the least successful of the novels, yet it has considerable interest as Gorky’s only long work devoted to the Russian revolutionary movement. It was made into a notable silent film by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1926) and dramatized by Bertolt Brecht in Die Mutter

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novels

  • To the Lighthouse
    In novel: Proletarian

    …as Foma Gordeyev (1900) and Mother (1907), as well as numerous short stories portraying the bitterness of poverty and unemployment (in fact, the pseudonym Gorky means “Bitter”), may be taken as an exemplary proletarian writer. The United States has produced a rich crop of working-class fiction. Such socialist writers as…

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