Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana - Hardcover

Chute, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060391316 ISBN 13: 9780060391317

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

Examines Tolstoy's complex and contradictory relationship with the two thousand-acre estate where he was born, showing how it became the central metaphor of his life

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Synopsis:

Yasnaya Polyana was Tolstoy's estate in Russia. Sometimes it was his sanctuary and sometimes his personal hell. This book explores Tolstoy's complex relationship with, and the great influences of his home, bringing this man, his family and his philosophy to life. The book shows how Yasnaya Polyana became the central metaphor in Tolstoy's life - a substitute for the mother he never knew and the root system from which sprang "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina". It also looks at the ironies that tormented Tolstoy as he idolized the peasant, and yet in many ways lived like the count he was, and sketched the people that surrounded him, many of whom served as the basis for his most memorable fictional characters.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060391316
• ISBN 13: 9780060391317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192