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«Tolstojs fortellinger fører leseren gjennom lag på lag av det russiske keiserrikets samfunn: godseiere og bønder, byråkrati og militær, fromme menn og kort­spillere, hoffolk, storbykunstnere og kaukasiske fjellfolk, og gir et panorama over de emner som opptok ham fra han begynte å skrive, til han la pennen bort som gammel mann. Vi finner en ubrutt linje, en sammen­hengende vilje til å skildre virkeligheten tro­verdig uten noen skjønnmaling. Samtidig ser vi et stadig sterkere moralsk trykk, en stadig mer påtrengende påpekning av mang­lene ved samtidens mennesker og deres samfunn, for alle fortellingene er bygd over en klar kontrast, og Tolstoj lar aldri leseren i tvil om hvilket alternativ som er det rette, det kloke eller det gode. Men Tolstojs betagelse av ekte liv overvinner den truende skjematismen, fornekter seg ikke, for livet taler fremdeles til hans hjerte når han møter det i ufordervet stand – hos landsens barn eller hos eldgamle eneboere på en liten øy.» [Fra forordet til Erik Egeberg]

392 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

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Leo Tolstoy

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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.

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