Word: artamonov
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...this study of Russian babbitts, Author Gorky is no Sinclair Lewis. He is impassive and even pitying toward those stupid, acquisitive bipeds-serfs before 1861, small-town industrialists thereafter-whose tendency to "make another America" out of Russia was retarded by 20th Century revolutions. This lengthy history of the Artamonov family, father and sons, rising with their big linen factory to as much power as they can control, then losing it all, is not satire or invective. It is honest, impersonal realism, thoughtful though morose...
...Bearlike Artamonov Sr. becomes almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred...
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