The Spy - The story of a man whose existence is as if he did not exist

Russian writer Maxim Gorky takes us to the beginning of the twentieth century to tell us the story of a child who lived as an orphan, moving from one home to another and from one job to another. He lives far from his family, of which only his uncle remains. He suffers the pain of orphanhood, alienation, and people's greed. This child grows up and finds himself a spy in The government of the Tsar, who is about to lose his king due to the spread of protests in the country. This period witnessed the spread of spies throughout the country, so the hero of the story became part of this system. This spy lives a whirlpool of mixed feelings that struggle within him, unaware of what he is doing. He lives a life of nihilism and emptiness that makes... From his "existence as non-existence", he decides at the end of the story to make his decisive decision to get out of this spiral. Gorky wrote the novel "The Spy" during the chaos that spread in the Tsar's empire at the beginning of the twentieth century and the people's demands for reforms. Gorky is considered the founder of the socialist realist school, which embodies the Marxist view of literature. The writer was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was known for his anti-Tsar writings, as a result of which he was imprisoned several times.