Regret not reading Gorky's Childhood earlier

The French critical realist writer Romain Rolland once said: "In Russian literature, I have not read more beautiful works than 'Childhood'. Gorky's first autobiographical work, "Childhood", is also a well-known masterpiece at home and abroad.

The story in the book begins one day in my childhood, when I was recovering from a serious illness and my father, who was caring for me, unfortunately fell ill and died. I followed my mother to my grandmother's house, and from then on I began a life of humiliation under the fence. Only the amiable grandmother was the only patron saint of my miserable childhood, and quietly buried the seeds of truth, goodness, and beauty in the inner world.

The book reads, "I'm starting to make money too. Every holiday, early in the morning, I pick up sacks and walk the streets to pick up cow bones, rags, waste paper, and scrap copper and rotten iron to sell to those who collect tatters. ”

This passage makes people feel pity for the new life, and naturally reminds people of the depth of the suffering that the author has experienced. In fact, human survival and end are the same, including rudeness, hatred, pain, and the love and kindness that shine in human nature. To survive in the present, we should be good at finding beauty and warmth.

Zhu Yongxin recommends the must-read classic books in primary and secondary schools, cultivate children's cultural literacy, open children's wisdom treasures, this book must be read to children!