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, 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, the writer’s health failed him in Astapovo, Russia, where he died on November 20, 1910.
Antony Briggs has translated widely from the Russian, especially Pushkin, and is the author of several critical books on Russian literature. Orlando Figes is the author of A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 and, most recently, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia.
发表于2024-11-27
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评分前兩天的某臨晨1點,躺在澡盆里用沾著泡泡的手把這書的最後1頁翻掉了。 —————————極其生硬的話題轉移線————————— 話說這幾天我在讀茨威格的《心靈的焦灼》 不知道什麽時候起,小說對我來說比起聽作者講故事,我更傾向于是作者好像搭積木的孩子一樣,搭建...
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At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed for ever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace (1863-9), Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.
Anthony Briggs's superb translation combines stirring, accessible prose with fidelity to Tolstoy's original, while Orlando Figes's afterword discusses the novel's vast scope and depiction of Russian identity. This edition also includes appendices, notes, a list of prominent characters and maps.
妈呀,整整读了一年,巨作果然不能随便读。
评分托尔斯泰发表这本小说只比曹雪芹写完红楼梦晚一年
评分托尔斯泰发表这本小说只比曹雪芹写完红楼梦晚一年
评分托尔斯泰发表这本小说只比曹雪芹写完红楼梦晚一年
评分终于找到经典名著的正确打开方式,先看电影或电视剧再挑战原作。2012年BBC迷你剧选角精准也把时代背景还原得不错,赏心悦目顺带把主角名字背一遍(其实没那么难记)。 只是书中最精彩的心理描写和哲学思辨实在拍不出来,只有有耐心读完四卷1200页外加150页史上最长后记的人才能体会。好像前面的所有情节和人物全都是为了演示作者关于时代与个人命运的思考而设置的。而这些思考在170年后的今天仍然重要,仍然悬而未决。
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