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The plot follows Šeks through the darkness of prison life – the "darkness of sleep" as a metaphor for hallucinations, isolation, and psychological pressure in which reality mixes with nightmares.
The work, which intertwines biographical notes with a description of the effects of opium and reflections on the nature of dreams, imagination and memory, will not leave anyone indifferent.
The first part of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, published in 1913, depicts the author's difficult upbringing under the Tsarist regime. The book follows Alexei Peshkov (real name Maxim Gorky) from his early childhood to his teenage years.