My Dream

by Leo Tolstoy

Рассказ, впервые опубликованный в 1906 году. В 1916 году был экранизирован (фильм "Сердце не камень").

Genres: Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature

24 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

See also:
French → Léon Tolstoï
Spanish → León Tolstói

Reviews

[Issa Deerbany · Rating 4 out of 5]

لا شيء ينتصر على عاطفة الأب والام نحو ابنائهم .

فمهما كان الخطأ الذي ارتكبه الابن او البنت كبيرا ، فغضب الأب او الام يزيد الامر سوءا ويسبب الكارثة لمن اخطأ ويزيد الغضب الامر سوءا وتعيش في تأنيب ضمير

المسامحة أفضل وتفهم الأوضاع أفضل من الكبرياء

[Asa J H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tolstoy delivers a hauntingly concise psychological sketch of a father’s overwhelming guilt and grief as he confronts the devastating emotional fallout of abandoning his illegitimate daughter.

[Timothy Coplin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Father - Daughter - Grandchild;
Obstinate - Prideful - Innocent.

A tale of the depravity of man-kind, and of their finding mutual forgiveness.

[Forked Radish · Rating 5 out of 5]

The wisest are the young and the most foolish are the old, and vice versa. In their own eyes, anyway, the very same eyes.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not one of Tolstoy’s strongest works. Quite reminiscent of Anna Karenina. It revolves around two single minded and stubborn people; Father Prince Michael Ivanovich and his daughter Vera. The two fall out, a feud ensues and they refuse to have anything to do with each other.

Vera goes off in the world refusing any help, scorned in love, and sinks into poverty before speaking to her father again. Unlike a similar situation with a man, who, Tolstoy will find the depths of depravity before finding redemption, it never fully came to light here. There were trials but nothing major. It could have been a lot more than it was.

[Sukhjot Kaur]

I dont know, this one is too complex, father and daughter both loving each other and facing each other at their worst is hard enough, but then there is some fresh prespective here. The author steps into the shoes of both. Where should the sympathies lie and what role the world has in this?

[زهراء · Rating 3 out of 5]

حلمي
القصة من ضمن كتاب باسم موت ايفان ايليتش ترجمة مها جمال

[Iman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story figures between two single minded persons- Father and Daughter.

I have copied this from someone in the review:

Father - Daughter - Grandchild;
Obstinate - Prideful - Innocent.

This is the exact plot of the story.

"I am glad that it was he who was guilty, and that he had nothing to forgive, but that he himself needed forgiveness"-

Theses words are said by the Father at the end of the story. The father who was angry of his daughter, always thought that how can he forgive his daughter who has committed such an evil act. But at the end, he realizes it was he who was on fault.

These words, I found really interesting. It has to do with the psyche of a person. When someone forgives someone for the crime/act, she/he has committed, the person forgiving always has a feeling, was it right to forgive that person; was his asking for forgiveness honest and genuine. However, when the person who thinks in the other way, that he who was guilty, that he himself needed forgiveness, gives a different feeling- a feeling of satisfaction.
Anyways, I found these word really interesting.

[TarasProkopyuk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Название происходит от действительного сна Толстого, который изложил его в данном произведении.

Ошибки делаются как правило легко и непринуждённо, а для исправления или смирения с их последствиями иногда нужно очень много времени. Но если их не исправлять они так и останутся открытыми ранами...

Лучше уж рубцы чем эти раны. И пусть всем хватает смелости для правильных решений!