In my university, Gorky used his own brush strokes to reflect the life of Russian intellectuals at that time and the activities of populists against the czar's rule, showing the ideological status of Russian intellectuals in this period. In Gorky's autobiographical novels, we can see that Gorky hated the ugly reality of Russia when he was young and has been trying to explore the road of life. He once fantasized about being a robber, robbing the rich to help the poor or improving people's lives by praying to God, but at that time he was still young, of course, this was just a naive fantasy. In a large number of critical realism works, he also failed to find the answer to the question "What should I do?" He contacted many intellectuals with revolutionary emotions, and Gorky wanted to find a new way of life from them.
The novel My University is the last autobiographical trilogy completed by Gorky 1923 during his convalescence abroad, and the first important work he wrote after the October Revolution. The novel tells the story of 16-year-old hero, full of the desire to go to college, bidding farewell to his elderly grandmother and coming to Kazan city on the Volga River from Nizhny Novgorod. When he arrived in Kazan, the hero clearly saw that the harsh real life suddenly dashed his good wish to go to college, because he had to face up to life and work for survival first. So the slums, despicable streets and ship docks of Kazan became his first social university on the road of life.
My university described his activities and growing experience in Kazan. He 16 years old came to Kazan with the hope of going to college, but his dream could not be realized. The slums and docks of Kazan became his social university. He has no place to live and shares a bed with others. Working in docks, bakeries and grocery stores. Later, due to contact with college students, middle school students, members of secret groups and revolutionaries exiled from Siberia, their thoughts changed. He read works of revolutionary democracy and Marxism until he took part in revolutionary activities. Under the guidance of revolutionaries, he got rid of the mental crisis of suicide. During his four years in Kazan, his thoughts, knowledge and social experience have made great progress.
On Earth is the second part of Gorky's autobiographical novel trilogy. The novel describes the life of the protagonist Aletha from 187 1 to 1884. During this period, in order to make a living, he and his grandmother worked hard to pick wild fruits, worked as apprentices for draftsmen, worked as dishwashers on ships, and worked as apprentices in icon workshops. On the road of life, he has experienced many ups and downs, dealing with all kinds of people at the bottom of society and having the opportunity to read a lot of books. Aletha's life experience and extensive reading broadened his horizons, and he was determined to "be a strong man and not give in to the environment". With such a firm belief, he left his hometown and came to Kazan.
In the novel, the author not only reproduces all kinds of ordinary citizens and their living customs, moral concepts and spiritual realm, but also creates a series of characters that embody the wisdom and talent of the working people, widely and profoundly reproduces the miserable life of the broad masses of lower-class workers and their ideological complex, and depicts the historical picture of an era in Russian society.