Correspondencia

by Leo Tolstoy, Selma Ancira (Translator)

Se publica aquí una amplia selección de las cartas de Lev Tolstói, de gran relevancia en el conjunto de la obra de nuestro escritor. De las más de diez mil conservadas, Selma Ancira ha seleccionado, traducido y anotado minuciosamente las más significativas. Se incluyen varias de las cartas de amor que Tolstói escribió a Valeria Arsénieva y más tarde a su esposa Sofia Bers; aquellas en las que el escritor en ciernes describe sus impresiones como voluntario en la guerra del Cáucaso y en la de Crimea; las que nos hablan de sus viajes a Europa y sus inquietudes pedagógicas; las que nos informan sobre su debut en el mundo de las letras y los grandes momentos que vivió durante y después de la publicación de 'Guerra y paz' y 'Anna Karénina'. No falta la historia de su tormentosa amistad con Iván Turguéniev, la correspondencia dirigida a Rainer Maria Rilke, Romain Rolland, Bernard Shaw, Ivan Bunin, Máxim Gorki, Gandhi o Strájov, así como la célebre epístola al zar Nicolás II.

864 pages, Paperback

Published September 3, 2008

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.