Description: Count Leo Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. Orphaned at nine, he was brought up by an elderly aunt and educated by French tutors until he matriculated at Kazan University in 1844. In 1847, he gave up his studies and, after several aimless years, volunteered for military duty in the army, serving as a junior officer in the Crimean War before retiring in 1857. In 1862, Tolstoy married Sophie Behrs, a marriage that was to become, for him, bitterly unhappy. His diary, started in 1847, was used for self-study and self-criticism; it served as the source from which he drew much of the material that appeared not only in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), but also in his shorter works. Seeking religious justification for his life, Tolstoy evolved a new Christianity based upon his own interpretation of the Gospels. Yasnaya Polyana became a mecca for his many converts At the age of eighty-two, while away from home, the writer suffered a break down in his health in Astapovo, Riazan, and he died there on November 20, 1910. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Bulgakov. Their translation of The Brothers Karamazov won the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. They are married and live in Paris, France. What Is Art? - Leo Tolstoy Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky with a Preface by Richard Pevear Preface Bibliographical Note A Note on the Text WHAT IS ART?Appendix I Appendix II Notes
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EAN: 9780140446425
UPC: 9780140446425
ISBN: 9780140446425
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Book Title: What Is Art?
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Essays
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy
Item Weight: 6.3 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback