{"product_id":"the-confession-9798888301166","title":"The Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Maxim Gorky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Confession is a 1908 short novel by Maxim Gorky. It first appeared in the Znaniye compilation (book 23, Saint Petersburg) and almost simultaneously came out as a separate edition via the Ladyzhnikov Publishers in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tale of Matvey, a pilgrim, was based upon the real-life story of a religious sectarian in Nizhny Novgorod, and an article on him by Bogdan-Stepanets, a tutor at the local seminary. Later, in a sketch called \"On the Edge of the World\", Gorky mentioned another source, the manuscript by a Levonty Pomorets, which the writer's friend S.G. Somov brought with him from his Siberian exile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel, written in the times when Gorky became keenly interested in the new quasi-religious God-Building movement, horrified Vladimir Lenin who on several occasions criticized the attempts to unite Socialism and Christianity, mentioning A Confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGorky explained: \"I am an atheist. In A Confession the idea was to show the means by which man could progress from individualism to the collectivist understanding of the world. The main character sees 'God-building' as an attempt to reconstruct social life according to the spirit of collectivism, the spirit of uniting the people on their way to one common goal: liberating man from slavery, within and without.\" (wikipedia.org)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46447784722583,"sku":"9798888301166","price":2704.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798888301166.webp?v=1769141751","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-confession-9798888301166","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}