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The very title of the novel tells us how Kozarac was preoccupied with the uncultivated, dead land that is waiting for a man, a hardworking peasant, who will cultivate it. He called it "dead capital".
Autobiographical trilogy - Childhood, In the world, My universities. Judging by some of his letters and works, Gorki conceived this trilogy as early as 1893 and wrote it from 1913 to 1923.
The novel is set during the French Revolution, more precisely during the Jacobin reign of terror, in the years after the execution of King Louis XVI, while Queen Marie Antoinette was imprisoned in the Temple prison.