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20-437: The Mother may refer to: Mother (Gorky novel) , 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky The Mother (Brecht play) , a play by Bertolt Brecht based on Gorky's novel, first performed in 1935 The Mother (Pearl S. Buck novel) , first published in 1934 The Mother (Čapek play) , a play by Karel Čapek written in 1938 The Mother (TV play) (1954), by Paddy Chayefsky The Mother ,

40-453: A 2010 play by Florian Zeller The Mother (2003 film) , a film directed by Roger Michell The Mother (2023 film) , an American action film Mirra Alfassa (1878–1973), spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, a Hindu spiritual leader The Mother ( How I Met Your Mother ) , a fictional television character See also [ edit ] The Mothers , an American rock band Mother (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

60-813: A city; in 1929, it was amalgamated into the city of Nizhny Novgorod, becoming one of its districts. It is one of the city's industrial districts. Besides Krasnoye Sormovo, its well-known enterprises include the Volga Shipyard (which was spun off from Krasnoye Sormovo in 1970, and is geographically adjacent to its parent plant) and the Sormovo Confectionery Factory ( Сормовская кондитерская фабрика ). The May Day demonstration, mentioned in The Mother by Maxim Gorky , took place in Sormovo, 1902. The district does not have good, conveniently accessible beaches on

80-467: A distant relative of Anna Zalomova who visited Gorky's family when he was a child, had a deeper connection to the story. The event took place during a May Day demonstration in Sormovo in 1902. The shipbuilding town of Sormovo was near Gorky's native town, Nizhny Novgorod , where after the arrest of Piotr Zalomov by tsarist police, his mother, Anna Zalomova followed him into revolutionary activity. The novel

100-544: Is at first cautious about Pavel's new activities. However, she wants to help him. Pavel is shown as the main revolutionary character; the other revolutionary characters of the novel are Vlasov's friends, the anarchist peasant agitator Rybin and the Ukrainian Andrey Nakhodka, who expresses the idea of Socialist internationalism. Nevertheless Nilovna, moved by her maternal feelings and, though uneducated, overcoming her political ignorance to become involved in revolution,

120-496: Is based on the novel. Sormovsky City District The village originally known as Soromovo ( Соромово ) had existed since 1542. In 1849, the Sormovo Works—soon one of Russia's most important machine-building plants, later known as Krasnoye Sormovo —was founded; its owner had the village renamed to more euphonic Sormovo . Although legally a village, it soon grew into a large workers' settlement; in 1922, Sormovo became

140-497: Is considered the true protagonist of the novel. Mother is the only big novel of Gorky on the Russian revolutionary movement; however, of all his novels, it is possibly the least successful. Nevertheless, it remains the best known work of Gorky among the author's other novels. Modern critics consider it Gorky's most important pre-revolutionary novel as it is his only long work devoted to the Russian revolutionary movement and because of

160-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mother (Gorky novel) Mother ( Russian : Мать , romanized :  Mat' ) is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. Although Gorky was highly critical of

180-451: Is the real protagonist; her husband, a heavy drunkard, physically assaults her and leaves all the responsibility for raising their son, Pavel Vlasov, to her, but unexpectedly dies. Pavel noticeably begins to emulate his father in his drunkenness and stammer, but suddenly becomes involved in revolutionary activities. Abandoning drinking, Pavel starts to bring books and friends to his home. Being illiterate and having no political interest, Nilovna

200-426: Is very successful, but the other characters are one-dimensional. Freeborn notes that the other characters are little more than "eloquent mouthpieces" of their points of view, although Gorky fixes the flaw by projecting them through Nilovna's apprehension of them. The Bolsheviks praised the novel as a paean to socialist ideals, but its message encompasses more than mere class struggle. It is full of Biblical allusions:

220-481: The Volga shoreline, due to much of it being used by shipyards and floodlands. Instead, the locals prefer to use sand beaches on several artificial lakes, which formed several decades ago in the pits left from defunct sand quarries . Sokol Aircraft Plant and its airfield are located just south of the border of Sormovsky City District, within the neighboring Moskovsky City District of Nizhny Novgorod. Between 1956 and 1970,

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240-414: The naked word — suffering's needed, the word has to be washed in blood,' he warns, his words sounding especially ominous now, after a century of revolutions. The book's central theme is the mother's awakening from a life of fear and ignorance... Being considered one of the most influential novels of the century worldwide, Mother was made in 1926 into a silent film under Vsevolod Pudovkin 's direction with

260-448: The novel was clear. In 1905, after the defeat of Russia's first revolution , Gorky tried to raise the spirit of the proletarian movement by conveying the political agenda among the readers through his work. He was trying to raise spirit among the revolutionaries to battle the defeatist mood. Gorky was personally connected to the novel as it is based on real life events, revolving around Anna Zalomova and her son Pyotr Zalomov. Gorky, being

280-501: The novel, the work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number of films. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht and his collaborators based their 1932 play The Mother on this novel. Modern critics consider it possibly the least successful of Gorky's novels, however, they call it Gorky's most important novel written before 1917. Gorky wrote the novel on a trip to the United States in 1906. The political agenda behind

300-479: The revolutionaries are portrayed as saints, ready for martyrdom; Pavel speaks with 'the ardour of a disciple'; the Gospels are quoted to convey ideas about truth-searching. 'They’ve deceived us with God too!' says one of the characters before leaving the factory to go around villages, determined to open people’s eyes to the way they are being exploited: by the priests, the authorities, the 'gentlefolk'. 'People won't believe

320-462: The same name . In the following years, in 1932 the novel was dramatized into a play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in Die Mutter . In the later years, the novel was adapted in two other films of the same name. Mark Donskoy 's Mother which released in 1955 and Gleb Panfilov 's Mother (1990). Ilaignan , a 2011 Indian Tamil -language period action film directed by Suresh Krishna

340-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Mother . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Mother&oldid=1160643916 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

360-630: The vivid image of his " God-Builder " ideas. As Richard Freeborn writes, it is important, as it is his only work, written specifically about the proletariat during the proletarian revolution. More to it, while Gorky's other works are more or less autobiographical, in Mother Gorky "moved nearly towards pure fictional invention." After Gorky's return to the Soviet Union , the novel was declared by authorities as "the first work of Socialist realism ", and Gorky as its "founder". Nevertheless, Gorky himself

380-612: Was first published by Appleton's Magazine in the US and later by Ivan Ladyzhnikov Publishers in Germany. In Russia, it was published legally only after the February Revolution because of the Tsarist censorship. In his novel, Gorky portrays the life of a woman who works in a Russian factory doing hard manual labour and combating poverty and hunger, among other hardships. Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova

400-531: Was highly critical of Mother , saying that it was "an unsuccessful thing, not only in its external appearance, because it is long, boring and carelessly written, but chiefly because it is insufficiently democratic." Numerous artistic flaws of Mother and Gorky's other novels, written before 1910 have been widely described in reviews and critical essays by Korney Chukovsky , Andrei Sinyavsky , Ilya Serman, Marylin Minto and many others. As Minto notes, Nilovna's portrayal

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