The Life of Klim Samgin

Main Ideas

• Critique of bourgeois society and its morals
• Depiction of the crisis of the intelligentsia in Russia
• The problem of searching for the meaning of life and self-identity
• The influence of historical events on an individual's fate
• Depiction of revolutionary sentiments and their evolution
• Psychological portrait of the main character and his internal contradictions
• Theme of loneliness and alienation in society
• The role and place of the individual in the historical process