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Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed Professor Jeff Love

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed By Professor Jeff Love

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed by Professor Jeff Love


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Summary

Offers students an introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including Hadji Murat and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This guide also covers major themes including sex, death, authority and evil and offers an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical thought.

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed Summary

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed by Professor Jeff Love

A concise but comprehensive guide to Tolstoy's literary and philosophical writings, focusing on aspects of his work that students find most difficult. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of the most important writers in the Western tradition. His two great, giant novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are regarded as pinnacles of the genre; they cover an enormous range of basic human experiences with a precision and probing spirit that, in the words of one critic, are simply 'unmatched by any other writer.'This guide offers students a clear introduction to Tolstoy's literary works from his major novels to the shorter novels and texts, including Hadji Murat and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The guide also covers major themes including sex, death, authority and evil and offers an overview of Tolstoy's religious and philosophical thought. A final chapter assesses his lasting influence in the spheres of literature and culture, religion and philosophy and on major figures including Joyce, Ghandi, Wittgenstein and Heidegger. This is a comprehensive and readable guide to one of the most remarkable writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century. Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging - or indeed downright bewildering. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.

Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed Reviews

A marvelously engaging, lucid road map to one of the world's most fertile and infuriating creative minds. In a series of deep readings in deft philosophical frames, Jeff Love returns to Tolstoy his magnificent strangeness while at the same time increasing the comfort zone of home. - Caryl Emerson, Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USA
...the source of that puzzlement in the complexity and fecundity of Tolstoy's experience of life is intensely illuminated. Modern Language Review, 104.4, 2009
'It is pleasing to see new academic possibilities being opened up in a work marketed primarily at students and the general reader.' -- SEER
Jeff Love's Guide provides a highly abstracted, often daring, yet persuasive distillation of the major works of Tolstoy. Wonderfully organized by genre and written in clear, practical language... this compact book discerns profound and consistent patterns amidst a great variety of the author's writings... He derives numerous insights that one longs to apply to works by other authors... would serve as a useful introduction to Tolstoy's work... My own experience is that it also provides a stimulating, indeed challenging, afterword for those closely familiar with his works. - Slavic and East European Journal
Featured in article on new Beckett books in The Jewish Daily Forward.

About Professor Jeff Love

Jeff Love is Associate Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University, USA. He is author of The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi, 2004).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Hero Truth; 1. 'Who am I?'; 2. A Novelist?; 3. A Fabulist?; 4. A Prophet?; 5. A Philosopher?; Epilogue: Tolstoy's Legacy; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.

Additional information

GOR001075532
9780826493798
0826493793
Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed by Professor Jeff Love
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2008-09-25
192
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