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“Почувствовать характер народа...” : (Эпизод из переписки Т. Л. Сухотиной-Толстой и Карлиса Эгле)
2016
Lev Tolstoy's Appreciation of Charles Dickens?
2022
In Lev Tolstoy’s letters, memoirs and even literary works, mentions of Charles Dickens, his works and his influence on the Russian writer are found often enough to deserve a closer look. Of the Victorian writers Tolstoy read, Dickens was the most eminent, and his appreciation of the English author was permanent and unchangeable. Even in the period of his spiritual crisis, when he rejected most of his own works, some inspired by Dickens, he did not change his positive attitude towards his favourite English writer. Tolstoy read many of Dickens’s works, both in English and in Russian. He even managed to publish in his publishing house “Intermediary” Dickens’s Little Dorrit, Great Expectations,…
Mother's Death: A Turning Point in the Lives of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Lev Tolstoy's Nikolay Irtenev
2022
Although it is not possible to establish exactly when Lev Tolstoy started reading Charles Dickens, it was in the 1850s, he was reading David Copperfield, which was one of his most favourite novels by the English writer. David Copperfield is probabiy the most popular of all Dickens’s novels, and it is certainly the most autobiographical. The tendency to combine personal with general in an ambiguous generic package was also present from the beginning of Tolstoy’s career. His Childhood can be described as a pseudo-autobiography that imitates autobiography in all aspects, except one: its author and narrator are not the same person. A strong mother-son relationship is clearly visible in David Co…
Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" and Lev Tolstoy's "Where Love Is, There Is God Also": The Quest For the Meaning of Life
2021
Uznanie Lwa Tołstoja dla Charlesa Dickensa, którego pisarz rosyjski podziwiał za demokratyczne i humanistyczne cechy jego pisarstwa, było trwałe i niezmienne. Proces odnajdywania sensu życia i powrotu do społeczeństwa jest jednym z głównych tematów Opowieści wigilijnej i Gdzie miłość – tam i Bóg. Jednak źródła samotności i izolacji bohaterów Dickensa i Tołstoja mają różne podłoża. Scrooge celowo odizolował się od swojej rodziny i unikał kontaktów międzyludzkich. Źródłem samotności Martina był smutek i żal jaki towarzyszył mu po śmierci żony i dzieci. Stąd też bohater Turgieniewa nie widział sensu swojego dalszego życia. Seria wydarzeń i spotkań prowadzi obu bohaterów do wypracowania nowego …
Leo Tolstoy’s and Joseph Conrad’s Relation to Music
2017
It is important to stress that Tolstoy’s and Conrad’s texts are to be understood to include not only literary, and thus verbal, texts but also elements of other media, such as music, theatre and visual arts. It should be noted that for Conrad music was also one of the arts that he greatly appreciated. Though Conrad’s main concern was to make us “see,” he was also concerned with making us “hear.” The use of music to accompany sexual desire, frustration and violence is a technique often used by the writer. Likewise, music had an enormous infl uence on Tolstoy. He was fascinated with its power, just as with the power of sexuality, beauty and war. His favourite composer was Chopin, but he also …
Death and religion: from the old Tolstoy to the young Wittgenstein
2012
Mi propósito es doble. Mostrar cómo la pregunta por el sentido de la vida y la matriz del sentimiento religioso del Tolstoi maduro, que él considera cristianismo verdadero, se funda en la experiencia subjetiva del miedo ante la muerte y la angustia ante la soledad que la misma comporta. Este aspecto es el núcleo de su religiosidad por cuanto de él se deriva el valor de la fraternidad, centro de una moral humanista y altruista paradójica que sacraliza el vínculo amoroso entre los hombres a la par que se fundamenta en el sometimiento a la voluntad de Dios. Por otra parte, las concepciones de Tolstoi tal como se expresan no sólo en El Evangelio Abreviado, sino también en sus relatos literarios…