Critical analysis of the short story 'Her Lover' by Maxim Gorky.
Her Lover’ is a socialist practical short story penned to critique the growth of industrialization in Russia during the Tsars’ rule. The story is written with the aid of Russian author Maxim Gorky. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, additionally recognised as Maxim Gorky, was once one of the greatest Russian writers of the early twentieth century. He was the proponent of the literary writing style of Socialist Realism. Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II.Socialist Realism is characterised by means of the depiction of communist values, such as the emancipation of the proletariat. ‘Her Lover’ is a story of a prostitute socially isolated via the industrialized urban Muscovites at some s...