Abstract
The article interprets the meaning of the mysterious refrain of M. Gorky’s largest text. The refrain “Was there a boy?” is presented as a phenomenological reduction of intellectual and revolutionary reality in the illusionist reception of the protagonist. The key episodes in the formation of the image of Klim Samgin are subjected to a detailed discourse analysis. To highlight the context of M. Gorky’s novel, metatextual (the story “The Old Woman Izergil”) and intertextual (Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”) were produced comparisons. Some intersections with the prose of G. Gazdanov, as well as with the tragedy “Boris Godunov” by A. Pushkin, are considered. Klim Samgin’s «emptiness of the soul» is explained through the category of «typical» and parameterized with the groundlessness and futility of forcibly solving problems that have accumulated in the history of the formation of Russia as part of the Western world.
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