A new, vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction, by the acclaimed translating team whose War and Peace was a triumphant best seller.
These incandescent stories from the mature author—some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively drawn—include “Hadji Murat,” which Harold Bloom called “the best story in the world”; “The Devil,” a tale of sexual obsession based on Tolstoy’s own relationship with a married peasant woman on his estate in the years before his marriage; the celebrated title story, an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption; and seven others. Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation captures the richness, immediacy, and multiplicity of Tolstoy’s language and reveals the author as a passionate moral guide, an unflinching seeker of truth, and a creator of enduring and universal art.
Check Catalog
"So Many Books...So Little Time"
Some of the Library's newly-acquired books that have been highlighted on Colonie's Cable Channel 17 show called "So Many Books..So Little Time."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment