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Anna Karenina

German · Paperback / Softback

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Anna Karenina ist die einfache Geschichte einer Dame der hohen russischen Gesellschaft, die an einen ungeliebten Mann verheiratet ist, sich in einen andern verliebt, ihren Gatten verlässt und sich schließlich, den vielerlei Konflikten ihrer Lage nicht mehr gewachsen, unter die Räder eines Zuges wirft.
Maupassant hätte daraus eine Studie von zwanzig Seiten gemacht, Altenberg eine Skizze von zwei Seiten. Tolstoi hat dreizehnhundert Seiten darüber geschrieben, und man hat den Eindruck, er hätte auch das Doppelte und Dreifache schreiben können. Es gibt Schilderer, die die Breite absolut nicht vertragen und sofort langweilig werden, wenn sie sich nur ein bisschen expandieren, und es gibt Seelenmaler, die überhaupt erst bei der Breite anfangen. Unter diese gehört Tolstoi. Er ist gar nicht geschwätzig, er sagt niemals etwas Entbehrliches, und er wiederholt sich nur dort, wo es ein Mangel an Realistik wäre, sich nicht zu wiederholen.

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Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, in the Tula province, and educated privately. He studied Oriental languages and law at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He took part in the Crimean War and after the defence of Sebastopol he wrote The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6), which established his reputation. After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, where he studied educational methods for use in his school for peasant children in Yasnaya Polyana, he married Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862. The next fifteen years was a period of great happiness; they had thirteen children, and Tolstoy managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes, continued his educational projects, cared for his peasants and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life; he became an extreme moralist and in a series of pamphlets after 1880 expressed his rejection of state and church, indictment of the weaknesses of the flesh and denunciation of private property. His teaching earned him numerous followers at home and abroad, but also much opposition, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramamtic flight from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo.

Product details

Authors Leo N. Tolstoi
Publisher Insel Verlag
 
Languages German
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2003
 
EAN 9783458346609
ISBN 978-3-458-34660-9
No. of pages 1204
Dimensions 107 mm x 41 mm x 176 mm
Weight 598 g
Series insel taschenbuch
Insel Taschenbücher
Die großen russischen Romane im Insel Taschenbuch
insel taschenbuch
Insel Taschenbücher
Die großen russischen Romane im Insel Taschenbuch
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Russische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.)

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