Gorky Park | Characters
Arkady Renko, Gorky Park's protagonist, is the alienated citizen of a culture that prides itself upon its elimination of capitalism's exploitative alienation of workers from the fruits of their labor. In a sense, Renko is a model of proletarian consciousness: He performs his police duties conscientiously and well, even though he is poorly paid and has been passed over for promotion despite an excellent record of solving cases. It is precisely his high professional competence, however, which has kept him from being better rewarded by his society, since he has failed to conform to...
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