THE Mother

Maxim Gorky, the founder of social realism, was a Russian writer who pioneered literary style through his magnum opus, Mother. It is the story of the radicalization of an uneducated, hard-working/ peasant woman who faces domestic assaults by her husband. Mother raises the suppressed voices/ of the working-class people and depicts the power of dignity of an individual. Written in 1906, the/ book still stirs the emotional journey to the soul, showing the protective and selfless concerns of a/ mother for the crushed spirit of her people.br>/ / Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he/ was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations in the book/ that has stood the test of time./ /