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My Childhood

Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky`s childhood equipped him to understand – in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev – the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender mountain of a woman and a wonderful storyteller, who would kneel beside their bed (with Gorky inside it pretending to be asleep) and give God her views on the day`s happenings, down to the last fascinating details. She was, in fact, Gorky`s closest friend and the epic heroine of a book swarming with characters and with the sensations of a curious and often frightened little boy.”My Childhood”, the first volume of Gorky`s autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism. It describes a life begun in the raw, remembered with extraordinary charm and poignancy and without bitterness. Of all Gorky`s books this is the one that made him `the father of Russian literature`.

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