Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but their early lives and writings display provocative ...kinships, while also indicating the divergent paths the two authors would take en route to literary greatness. The ten new critical essays here, written by leading specialists in nineteenth-century Russian literature, give fresh, sophisticated readings to works from the first decade of the literary life of each Russian author—for Dostoevsky, the 1840s; for Tolstoy, the 1850s. Collectively, these essays yield composite portraits of these two artists as young men finding their literary way. At the same time, they show how the early works merit appreciation for themselves, before their authors were Titans.
"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions . . . pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could ...easily read myself and that others could read me as I do. . ." Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopia-turning the totality of his life into a book-would remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it."Who, What Am I?"is an account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.
This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, and the meticulous accounts of dreams. For Tolstoy, inherent in the structure of the narrative form was a conception of life that accorded linear temporal order a predominant role, and this implied finitude. He refused to accept that human life stopped with death and that the self was limited to what could be remembered and told. In short, his was a philosophical and religious quest, and he followed in the footsteps of many, from Plato and Augustine to Rousseau and Schopenhauer. In reconstructing Tolstoy's struggles, this book reflects on the problems of self and narrative as well as provides an intellectual and psychological biography of the writer.
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Autorul analizează romanul lui Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj, scriitor rus, și evidențiază tipurile de personaje și de caractere și tehnica de descriere folosită de autor, care captivează în ...întregimea operei.
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Recenzie a cărții „Sonata Kreutzer”, fără indicarea datelor editoriale. Scrierea lui Tolstoi cuprinde în ea o „lume”, închide în ea „suflet”, fapt pentru care aproape îi obligă pe criticii ...literari să ia poziție în raport cu ea. Text datat: „28 Oct. 1922, București”, nesemnat. Recenzia este publicată la secțiunea „Cărți vechi”, din cadrul rubricii „Cărți - Reviste”.
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Autorul rezumă drama scrisă de L. Tolstoi și realizează o cronică critică a spectacolului de teatru pus în scenă de către Tudor Călin, care nu este „un director de scenă de meserie”. Sunt ...apreciate evoluțiile unor actori și decorul care a sugerat puterea întunericului asupra omului.
dramă în 4 acte de L. Tolstoi
