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Language, Poetry and Poetics - The Generation of the 1890s: Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Majakovskij. Proceedings of the First Roman Jakobson Colloquium, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 5-6, 1984 (Hardcover, Reprint 2015)
Krystyna Pomorska, Elzbieta Chodakowska, Hugh McLean, Brent Vine
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R3,391
Discovery Miles 33 910
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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 civilised 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.
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.
Leo Tolstoy combined detailed physical description with perceptive
psychological insight to sweep aside the sham of surface
appearances and lay bare man's intimate gestures, acts, and
thoughts. Murder and sacrifice...greed and devotion...lust and
affection...vanity and love--one by one, in this volume of great
stories, Tolstoy dissects the basic drives, emotions, and motives
of ordinary people searching for self-knowledge and spiritual
perfection. Chekhov said, "Of authors my favorite is Tolstoy." And
Turgenev "marveled at the strength of his huge talent...It sends a
cold shudder even down my back...He is a master, a master."
Now with a new introduction by Regina Marler and an afterword by
Hugh McLean.
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's
artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with
prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour,
realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army,
The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited
son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral
purpose, What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn
three existential rules of life, and Two Old Men' shows a peasant
abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his
neighbours. And in the highly moving Master and Man', Tolstoy
depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting
servant through a blizzard to close a business deal little
realizing he may soon have to settle accounts with his maker.
This volume completes a program of publishing distinguished essays
on a wide range of Slavic topics.
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