2. Maa odia book by maxima gorky
Maa 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 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 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 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.
