short story "Chelkash"
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"Chelkash" is a short story by Maxim Gorky that portrays a hardened dockside thief and explores themes of freedom, poverty, and moral conflict in late 19th-century Russia.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chelkash | 45 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Maxim Gorky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType |
Chelkash is a romanticized outcast
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Gavrila is a conflicted peasant youth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| depicts |
dockside criminal underworld
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harsh life of the poor ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between material security and personal freedom
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tension between peasant morality and urban criminality ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
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social fiction ⓘ |
| hasMoralFocus |
corrupting power of money
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price of freedom ⓘ |
| hasTitleInRussian | Челкаш NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | collections of Maxim Gorky’s short stories ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Russian realism
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early socialist realism precursor ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
example of Gorky’s focus on the lower classes
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important early work of Maxim Gorky ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Chelkash
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Gavrila NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| portrays |
contrast between romantic freedom and peasant desire for land
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inner struggle of a man tempted to betray his benefactor ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | dockside thief ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait |
cynical
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free-spirited ⓘ hardened ⓘ |
| secondaryCharacterTrait |
Gavrila is naive
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Gavrila is poor peasant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| settingPlace | a port city on the Black Sea ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
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class struggle ⓘ conscience ⓘ freedom ⓘ individualism ⓘ moral conflict ⓘ poverty ⓘ social inequality ⓘ temptation of money ⓘ |
| workOfAuthorPeriod | early Gorky period ⓘ |
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Chelkash