Meistererzählungen

by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoi, Fega Frisch (Translator)

Herr und Knecht /
Vater Sergij /
Kornej Wassiljew /
Der Leinwandmesser /
Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? /
Wovon leben die Menschen? /
Die beiden Alten /
Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch /
Nach dem Balle.

Genres: Classics

501 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1950

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

[Bee · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,75

Reihenfolge der Geschichten, beste zu schelchteste:

1. Der Teufel
2. Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch
3. Herr und Knecht
4. Der Leinwandmesser
5. Drei Tode
6. Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?

[Matti]

Mein Ranking der Geschichten
1. Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch
2. Der Teufel
3. Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch
4. Der Leinwandmesser
5. Herr und Knecht
6. Drei Tode

[Johannes Dörr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Herr und Knecht (5/5)
Der Teufel (4/5)
Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch (4/5)
Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (3/5)
Drei Tode (3/5)
Der Leinwandmesser (2/5)