Shakespeare e o drama

by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy

Shakespeare e o drama, ensaio escrito entre 1903 e 1906, é um dos últimos textos de Tolstói. Nele encontramos o genial romancista russo confrontando as ideias do genial dramaturgo inglês. Em suas considerações de ordem moral ou religiosa, Tolstói desenvolveu algo que Vladimir Nabokov considerou uma “nova religião (...) mistura neutra de Nirvana hindu com o novo Testamento, Jesus sem a igreja”. Sem dúvida, há reflexos desse pensamento em Shakespeare e o drama. Para Aurora Bernardini, que traduziu e prefaciou o livro, “a naturalidade é um dos grandes trunfos de Tolstói contra Shakespeare”. E acrescenta ainda a tradutora: “Quanto a seu vaticínio sobre os principais aspectos da arte futura e seus efeitos sobre o público, eles são, hoje, todo o contrário do que ele propunha e, por uma grande ironia da história, parecem se aproximar cada vez mais aos que ele tanto castigou nos dramas de Shakespeare. Mas vamos deixar aos leitores o prazer de descobrir as argumentações argutas dos três trabalhos aqui apresentados e o prazer de se divertir com as recriações e os estranhamentos de Tolstói.”

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2014

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

[Antonia]

Thought provoking although he expresses too much hate and I don’t get the reason. In his hater era I guess. Still, it’s very interesting to read various opinions on such a beloved author.

[Maria Luiza · Rating 1 out of 5]

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