RECEPTION OF THE MAIN HERO IMAGE OF THE NOVEL BY M. GORKY “LIFE OF KLIM SAMGIN”: FROM THE AUTHOR'S CONCEPTION TO THE MODERN READING
The article is devoted to the analysis of the image of the main character perception dynamics in Maxim Gorky's novelchronicle through changing context of ideas about the place and role of the Russian intelligentsia in the historical process of the end of the XIX century and the first decades of the twentieth century. The author of the report is looking for answers to a number of questions, including questions about how typical and weighty in the social context of Russian life was the image of Klim Samgin; how relevant for the modern reader is to read this image as a “history of an empty soul” in accordance with the original intention of the writer; whether the traditional negativity in the perception of the image of Klim Samgin is due to the fact that he embodies bourgeois hated by Gorky, or because he does not believe in the ideals of the revolutionary restructuring of society; is it possible to justify the life position of Klim Samgin by the modern reader?