Maa odia book by maxima gorky
                     Maa odia book by maxima gorky
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.