Mother (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxim Gorki
- First Published: 1906
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Naturalism
- Time of Work: First decade of the twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Trials, Lower classes, Russia or Russian people, Peasantry or peasants, Proletariat, Russian Revolution, Propaganda
- Locales: Russia
Places Discussed
Vlasov house (VLAH-sof). Home of protagonist Pavel Vlasov located on the outskirts of an unnamed Russian town. In the main room of the small gray house, Pavel gathers together his ever changing circle of radicals, and a feeling of affinity with the suffering workers of the world is born. There also, Pavel’s mother, Pelagueya Vlasova, is slowly drawn into the lives and work of the revolutionaries. The house becomes a center of radical activity as well as the focus of observation by police spies and is the target of several police raids.
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