ABSTRACT
Maxim Gorky was born on March 28, 1868, in Nizhni Novgorod. From his earliest days, young Gorky suffered the harshest and most brutal experiences. This experience was the turning point in his life. He left the hospital consumed by a radical rebellion against the social order. He had depicted characters even lower on the social scale than Fyodor Dostoevski's city dwellers: the peasant, the workingman, downtrodden tramps, factory workers, and social outcasts, living in terrible squalor and dwelling on the fringe of society. In 1899, he became the literary editor of the Marxist newspaper Zhizn, in which he expressed his concerns about social injustice. He also began work on his most famous novel Mat, which, because of its excellent propaganda for socialism, was later acclaimed as the model for Socialist Realism. In 1907, when Gorky returned to Europe because of his trouble with the czarist regime, he settled on Capri as a political emigre.
