In Quest Of Tolstoy
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In Quest Of Tolstoy
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Author : Hugh McLean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
In Quest Of Tolstoy written by Hugh McLean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human society--political, economic, legal, and cultural. Hugh McLean, Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at the University of California, Berkeley, has been studying and writing about Tolstoy for many years. In these essays he investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of those incomparable novels, and Tolstoy the thinker, who, from his impregnable outpost at Yasnaya Polyana, questioned the received ideas and beliefs of the whole civilized world. In two concluding essays, "Tolstoy beyond Tolstoy," McLean deals with the impact of Tolstoy on such diverse figures as Ernest Hemingway and Isaiah Berlin.
Tolstoy S Quest For God
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Author : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-28
Tolstoy S Quest For God written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The religious dimension of Tolstoy's life is usually associated with his later years following his renunciation of art. In this volume, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere demonstrates instead that Tolstoy was preoccupied with a quest for God throughout all of his adult life. Although renowned as the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilych, and other literary works, and for his activism on behalf of the poor and the downtrodden of Russia, Tolstoy himself was concerned primarily with achieving personal union with God.Tolstoy suffered from periodic bouts of depression which brought his creative life to a standstill, and which intensified his need to find comfort in the embrace of a personal God. At times he was in such psychic pain he wanted to die. Yet Tolstoy felt that he deserved to suffer, and he learned to welcome suffering in masochistic fashion. Rancour-Laferriere locates the psychological underpinnings of Tolstoy's suffering in a bipolar illness that led him actively to seek suffering and self-humiliation in the Russian tradition of holy foolishness. With voluntary suffering, and Jesus Christ as his model, Tolstoy advocated nonresistance to evil, and in his daily life he strove never to return evil actions or words with physical or verbal resistance. On the other hand, being bipolar, Tolstoy in some situations would drift in a manic direction, indulging in delusions of grandeur. Indeed, the aging Tolstoy occasionally went so far as to equate himself with God, as can be seen from his diaries and personal correspondence.The pantheistic world view which Tolstoy achieved at the end of his life meant that God was within himself and within all people and all things in the entire universe. By this time Tolstoy was also utilizing images of a mother to represent his God. With this essentially maternal God so conveniently available, there was nowhere Tolstoy could be without Her. For, in the end, Tolstoy's quest for God was a
Tolstoy In Search Of Truth And Meaning
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2024
Tolstoy In Search Of Truth And Meaning written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This collection of inspirational quotes represents Tolstoy's lifelong quest to find meaning and understand life's purpose. Gathered from various writings throughout his lifetime, Tolstoy covers multiple topics, including self-improvement, marriage, good and evil, war, and civil disobedience.
A Study Guide For Leo Tolstoy S The Long Exile
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
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A Study Guide For Leo Tolstoy S The Long Exile written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for Leo Tolstoy's "The Long Exile," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Quest For A Non Violent Russia
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Author : Alexander Fodor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
A Quest For A Non Violent Russia written by Alexander Fodor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
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War Peace
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-12-22
War Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with Fiction categories.
"War and Peace" is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina. This complete english version translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude was originally published in 1922. It includes all 15 books including the first and second epilogue. The Maudes are classical translators of Leo Tolstoy who worked directly with the author and gained his personal endorsement.
Simply Tolstoy
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Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
language : en
Publisher: Simply Charly
Release Date : 2017-07-27
Simply Tolstoy written by Donna Tussing Orwin and has been published by Simply Charly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“This is a little gem, the best introduction to Tolstoy I have ever encountered, and it is more than that. The most accomplished scholar will find important new insights, the sort that one immediately recognizes as both true and profound. Orwin brings Tolstoy to life as a person and as a writer, and she also shows beautifully how the two are linked. The discussions of Tolstoy's views on psychology and the nature of art are especially illuminating.” —Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. While he would live and travel in other places over the years, he always considered this family residence in the Russian heartland as his home. His lifelong quest for truth and meaning began while he was a university student. Subsequent experiences as an artillery officer in the Caucasian and Crimean Wars, and time spent in St. Petersburg and Europe, broadened his perspective and profoundly influenced him. In Simply Tolstoy, Professor Donna Tussing Orwin traces the author’s profound journey of discovery and explains how he mined his tumultuous inner life to create his great works, including War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych. She shows how these books, both fiction and nonfiction, are not autobiographical in the conventional sense, but function as snapshots of Tolstoy’s state of mind at specific points in his life. The story she tells is, inevitably, intertwined with the story of Russia, a country also in constant search of its identity. Mixing biography, literary analysis, and history, Simply Tolstoy is a satisfying read for those already familiar with the author’s work, as well as an accessible and thoroughly engaging introduction to a literary giant who was also a tireless and uncompromising seeker of truth.
War And Peace
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-25
War And Peace written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-25 with Fiction categories.
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina. This complete english version translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude was originally published in 1922. It includes all 15 books + the first and second epilogue. The Maudes are classical translators of Leo Tolstoy who worked directly with the author and gained his personal endorsement. This e-book is carefully crafted and contains a detailed table of contents.
Resurrection
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-10
Resurrection written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-10 with Art categories.
The novel revolves around the relationship between Nekhldoff, a Russian landlord, and Máslova, a prostitute whose life took a sharp turn for the worse after Nekhldoff wronged her ten years before the course of the story. After sitting on the jury for a sentencing hearing in which Máslova is charged with poisoning a merchant, Nekhldoff begins to realize the harm he has inflicted on Máslova—as well as the harm inflicted by the Russian state and society on the poor and marginalized—as he embarks on a desire to alleviate Máslova's suffering.
The Awakening
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2020-01-01
The Awakening written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Awakening; first published in 1899; was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the popular weekly magazine Niva in an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Dukhobors. The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov; who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid had resulted in her being fired and ending up in prostitution. The book treats his attempts to help her out of her current misery; but also focuses on his personal mental and moral struggle. Framed for murder; the maid; Maslova; is convicted by mistake and sent to Siberia. Nekhlyudov goes to visit her in prison; meets other prisoners; hears their stories; and slowly comes to realize that all around his charmed and golden aristocratic world; yet invisible to it; is a much larger world of oppression; misery and barbarism. Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause; beaten without cause; immured in dungeons for life without cause; and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor; but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him; until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.