My universitiesMaksim Gorky
My universities
by Maksim Gorky · first published 1960
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My favorite of the year would be Maxim Gorky's three-part autobiography: I read "Childhood" and "In the World" (a.k.a. "Amid Attendants") and just started the last part "My Universities". Gorky drifted as an orphan from house and job to another and describes an interesting array of characters he came across, mostly poor and misfortunate, but many of them good as well. "He took me under…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗My bad! RE: Christian anarchists / Tolstoy I read Maxim Gorky's My Universities recently - a novel about his coming-of-age in late 19th century Russia. The reigning philosophy that rears its head again and again is Tolstoyan, that Gorky tries to press his Marxism against. Interesting…
on “The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (2005) [pdf]” ↗