Gorky said. "Books are the ladder of human progress" is Gorky's famous saying.
Most of Gorky's early realistic works were based on his experiences and feelings about life at the bottom. The most representative of them is the tramp-themed novel "Cherkash", which depicts an old tramp. Cherkash's noble qualities of being brave, independent, unyielding, and maintaining human dignity show that although these people still have a heavy spiritual burden, they are much nobler than selfish and vulgar small private owners.
In terms of art, "Cherkash" fully demonstrates Gorky's excellent skills in depicting complex characters in his early realist works. In addition to strongly indicting the evils of capitalist society, these works also strive to reveal the inner pain of homeless people and the struggle between old and new consciousness, and capture the characteristics of the times in the lives of working people. Their purpose is still to arouse people's positive attitude towards life. .
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In 1901, on the eve of the first great revolution in Russia, the revolutionary movement of the people was surging, and the reactionary tsarist government stepped up its suppression of the people. It was the revolution and When the counter-revolutionaries were fighting fiercely. Gorky participated in the demonstrations in Petersburg and personally felt the majestic momentum of the labor movement and student movement, and witnessed the brutal crimes of the tsarist government in suppressing the student movement. In order to enthusiastically praise the proletarian revolutionary pioneers, expose the reactionary tsarist government, and criticize the ugly faces of opportunists and bourgeois liberals, he wrote the prose poem "Song of Haiyan" (later renamed "Haiyan"), creating a symbolic The image of the brave Haiyan, a revolutionary with great wisdom and bravery fighting against the wind and waves, foretells the coming revolutionary storm and inspires people to face the great battle. This is a motto and ode to the proletarian revolutionary battle, which was warmly praised by Lenin.
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