Tolstoy S Diaries Volume 2 1895 1910

Author : Reginald F Christian,Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571324064

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Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910 by Reginald F Christian,Leo Tolstoy Pdf

An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 2 of Tolstoy's Diaries covers the years 1895-1910. These Diaries were meticulously edited by R.F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation, education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions. Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of his everyday existence. 'As a picture of the turbulent Russian world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess 'A model of scholarship, one of the most important books to be published in recent years.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Authors, Russian
ISBN : UOM:39015011267807

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Tolstoy's Diaries: 1895-1910 by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : Anna Berman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810131583

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Siblings in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky by Anna Berman Pdf

Anna A. Berman’s book brings to light the significance of sibling relationships in the writings of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Relationships in their works have typically been studied through the lens of erotic love in the former, and intergenerational conflict in the latter. In close readings of their major novels, Berman shows how both writers portray sibling relationships as a stabilizing force that counters the unpredictable, often destructive elements of romantic entanglements and the hierarchical structure of generations. Power and interconnectedness are cast in a new light. Berman persuasively argues that both authors gradually come to consider siblinghood a model of all human relations, discerning a career arc in each that moves from the dynamics within families to a much broader vision of universal brotherhood.

Author : Andrew D. Kaufman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451644715

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Give War and Peace a Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman Pdf

Considered by many critics to be the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is also, at 1500 pages, one of the most feared. What it is not is outdated. A love story, a family saga, a war novel. Tolstoy's epic is, at its core, about human beings attempting to create a meaningful life for themselves in a country torn apart by social change, political divisiveness, and spiritual confusion. It is nothing less than a mirror of our times.

Author : Reginald F Christian,Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571324040

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Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 1: 1847-1894 by Reginald F Christian,Leo Tolstoy Pdf

'An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy.' D. M. Thomas, Sunday Times Volume 1 of Tolstoy's Diaries covers the years 1847-1894 and was meticulously edited by R.F. Christian so as to reflect Tolstoy's preoccupations as a writer (his views on his own work and that of others), his development as a person and as a thinker, and his attitudes to contemporary social problems, rural life, industrialisation, education, and later, to religious and spiritual questions. Christian introduces each period with a brief and informative summary of the main biographical details of Tolstoy's life. The result is a unique portrait of a great writer in the variegation of his everyday existence. 'As a picture of the turbulent Russian world which Tolstoy inhabited these diaries are incomparable - the raw stuff not yet processed into art.' Anthony Burgess 'A model of scholarship, one of the most important books to be published in recent years.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator

Author : John Givens
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609092382

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The Image of Christ in Russian Literature by John Givens Pdf

Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature. This important study will appeal to scholars and students of Orthodox Christianity and Russian literature, as well as educated general readers interested in religion and nineteenth-century Russian novels.

Author : Caryl Emerson,George Pattison,Randall A. Poole
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192516404

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The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought by Caryl Emerson,George Pattison,Randall A. Poole Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas. After setting the historical background and context, the Handbook follows the leading figures and movements in modern Russian religious thought through a period of immense historical upheavals, including seventy years of officially atheist communist rule and the growth of an exiled diaspora with, e.g., its journal The Way. Therefore the shape of Russian religious thought cannot be separated from long-running debates with nihilism and atheism. Important thinkers such as Losev and Bakhtin had to guard their words in an environment of religious persecution, whilst some views were shaped by prison experiences. Before the Soviet period, Russian national identity was closely linked with religion - linkages which again are being forged in the new Russia. Relevant in this connection are complex relationships with Judaism. In addition to religious thinkers such as Philaret, Chaadaev, Khomiakov, Kireevsky, Soloviev, Florensky, Bulgakov, Berdyaev, Shestov, Frank, Karsavin, and Alexander Men, the Handbook also looks at the role of religion in aesthetics, music, poetry, art, film, and the novelists Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Ideas, institutions, and movements discussed include the Church academies, Slavophilism and Westernism, theosis, the name-glorifying (imiaslavie) controversy, the God-seekers and God-builders, Russian religious idealism and liberalism, and the Neopatristic school. Occultism is considered, as is the role of tradition and the influence of Russian religious thought in the West.

Author : Sofia Andreevna Bers Tolstaia,graf Léon Tolstoï,Aylmer Maude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:301469493

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The Final Struggle by Sofia Andreevna Bers Tolstaia,graf Léon Tolstoï,Aylmer Maude Pdf

Author : Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra,Leo Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985798336

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The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume--1895-1899) by Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910 Gra,Leo Leo Tolstoy Pdf

The Journal of Leo Tolstoi is a compilation of Tolstoy's journal entries. They entries range from 1895 through 1899 with an introduction by the translator Rose Strunsky. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Author : Sharon Cameron
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226414232

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The Bond of the Furthest Apart by Sharon Cameron Pdf

In the French filmmaker Robert Bresson’s cinematography, the linkage of fragmented, dissimilar images challenges our assumption that we know either what things are in themselves or the infinite ways in which they are entangled. The “bond” of Sharon Cameron’s title refers to the astonishing connections found both within Bresson’s films and across literary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, whose visionary rethinkings of experience are akin to Bresson’s in their resistance to all forms of abstraction and classification that segregate aspects of reality. Whether exploring Bresson’s efforts to reassess the limits of human reason and will, Dostoevsky’s subversions of Christian conventions, Tolstoy’s incompatible beliefs about death, or Kafka’s focus on creatures neither human nor animal, Cameron illuminates how the repeated juxtaposition of disparate, even antithetical, phenomena carves out new approaches to defining the essence of being, one where the very nature of fixed categories is brought into question. An innovative look at a classic French auteur and three giants of European literature, The Bond of the Furthest Apart will interest scholars of literature, film, ethics, aesthetics, and anyone drawn to an experimental venture in critical thought.

Author : Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571269044

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Tolstoy's Diaries by Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj Pdf

Author : David R. Egan,Melinda A. Egan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106017647295

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Leo Tolstoy by David R. Egan,Melinda A. Egan Pdf

More than 1200 books, essays, articles and dissertations about Tolstoy can be found in this bibliography. The entries are divided into sections on Tolstoy's fiction, art and aesthetics, philosophy, religion, education, and political, social and economic thought. The volume also lists Tolstoy biographies, comparisons with other authors and works abo

Author : Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : 057126042X

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The Final Struggle by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy Pdf

Harmony was not the leitmotif of the Tolstoys's marriage. In wedlock for forty-eight years, some of them happy, many of them turbulent, the couple had reached the nadir of mutual exasperation in 1910, the final year of Tolstoy's life. No biography could illustrate this more graphically than these diaries for that fateful year. In addition to the Countess's own diary and day book, salient extracts are also reproduced from not only from Leo Tolstoy's diary but his private diary (For Myself Alone) as well. There is more. It seems that almost everyone in the household had a sense of history and was recording their own observations of the domestic disintegration. The extensive footnotes quote liberally from, among others, Valentin Bulgakov (Tolstoy's secretary), Alexander Goldenweiser (pianist and close friend of Tolstoy), Vladimir Chertkov (Tolstoy's leading disciple, executor of his will, and the most controversial person in the book - the Countess's bête noire) and the eldest son, Sergey Tolstoy. The end is well-known: Tolstoy finally flees the family estate, Yasnaya Polyana, only to die shortly afterwards in the station-master's house at Astapovo. 'Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel an irrevocable mistake.' So says Prince Andrew to Pierre in War and Peace, but it could be the epigraph for this book. By all means see the film, The Last Station, but read this book as well.

Author : Mohandas Gandhi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107393622

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Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings by Mohandas Gandhi Pdf

Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. In his Introduction, Anthony Parel sets the work in its historical and political contexts. He analyses the significance of Gandhi's experiences in England and South Africa, and examines the intellectual cross-currents from East and West that affected the formation of the mind and character of one of the twentieth century's truly outstanding figures. The second part of the volume contains some of Gandhi's other writings, including his correspondence with Tolstoy, Nehru and others. Short bibliographical synopses of prominent figures mentioned in the text and a chronology of important events are also included as aids to the reader.

Author : Лев Толстой
Publisher : Litres
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040833771

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The Journal of Leo Tolstoi First. Volume—1895-1899 by Лев Толстой Pdf