Tolstoy

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Zusammenfassung

In this definitive portrait of one of the greatest novelists of all time, Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared: “Literature is rubbish.” Yet his titanic personality and the astonishing range of his talents and interests made him, as an author and as a strange self-proclaimed prophet, one of the undisputed literary giants of the nineteenth century. From his famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Henri Troyat, TROYAT HENRI
• Mitarbeit: Nancy Amphoux (Übersetzung), Amphoux Nancy (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Grove/Atlantic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.01.2001
• EAN: 9780802137685
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3768-5
• Serien: Grove Great Lives; Grove Great Lives
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; Russia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Russian, novelist;misogynist;titanic personality;bad marriage