In Quest of Tolstoy |
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| Author:
| McLean, Hugh |
| Series title: | Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-936235-08-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.00 |
Book Description:
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Investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of 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 McLean deals with the impact of Tolstoy on such diverse figures as Ernest Hemingway and Isaiah Berlin.
Investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of 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 McLean deals with the impact of Tolstoy on such diverse figures as Ernest Hemingway and Isaiah Berlin.