Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?: und andere Erzählungen/Die drei Tode; Der Schneesturm

by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoi

Hardcover

Published February 1, 2018

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.

Reviews

[Rita · Rating 3 out of 5]

Die drei Tode > Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? > Der Schneesturm

[Janine W. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sehr schöne Auswahl an Geschichten. Die Titelgeschichte "Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch" fand ich leider eher langweilig - aufgrund der ganzen positiven Reaktionen, habe ich einfach mehr erwartet. Aber ich muss auch fairerweise sagen, dass ich so "moralistische" Geschichten nie wirklich mag. Dafür gefielen mir "Die Drei Tode" und "Der Schneesturm" umso mehr. In "Die Drei Tode" hat mir die Charakterdarstellung sehr gefallen. Und "Der Schneesturm" war einfach unglaublich atmosphärisch.

[Mariam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wie viel Erde braucht der Mensch? 5/5
Die drei Tode 3.5/5
Der Schneesturm 2/5