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The Life of Leo Tolstoy: the experience of reading

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The Life of Leo Tolstoy: the experience of reading
14.99 €
Leo Tolstoy has long been a hallmark of Russian culture, but in contemporary Russia his perception is often clouded by stereotypes stemming from the Soviet tradition - school teaching, the desire to contrast Tolstoy the artist with Tolstoy the thinker. Meanwhile, Tolstoy is strikingly relevant today: the idea of nonviolent resistance, vegetarianism, downsizing, the demand for non-military service, the struggle for the preservation of nature, the attitude to love and sexuality - everything that seemed his strangeness is becoming the world's intellectual mainstream. This new concise biography of the great writer traces the main lines of his destiny and work. Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical legacy is considered here on a par with military experience, peasant labor and family tragedy. Such an "integrative" approach allows us to talk about him beyond the hackneyed arguments about "contradictions" and to see more clearly the unique consistency and integrity of his life journey. Andrei Zorin is a literary historian, professor at Oxford University and the Moscow School of Economics.
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