In quest of Tolstoy / Hugh McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLean, Hugh, 1925-2017.

Contributor:

Jahn, Gary R., Contributor.

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Criticism and interpretation.

Tolstoy, Leo.

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910--Influence.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human society-political, economic, legal, and cultural. Hugh McLean, Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at the University of California, Berkeley, has been studying and writing about Tolstoy for many years. In these essays he investigates some of the numerous puzzles and paradoxes in the Tolstoyan heritage, engaging both with Tolstoy the artist, author of those incomparable novels, and Tolstoy the thinker, who, from his impregnable outpost at Yasnaya Polyana, questioned the received ideas and beliefs of the whole civilized world. In two concluding essays, "Tolstoy beyond Tolstoy," McLean deals with the impact of Tolstoy on such diverse figures as Ernest Hemingway and Isaiah Berlin.

Contents:

Buried as a writer and as a man: the puzzle of family happiness

The case of the missing mothers, or when does a beginning begin?

Truth in dying

Which English Anna?

Love in resurrection: eros or agape?

Could the master err? a note on "God sees the truth but waits"

Was the master well served? further comment on "God sees the truth, but waits" / with Gary R. Jahn

A woman's place

The young Tolstoy and the woman question

Tolstoy and Jesus

Rousseau's god and Tolstoy's god

Claws on the behind: Tolstoy and Darwin

A clash of utopias: Tolstoy and Gorky

Hemingway and Tolstoy: a pugilistic encounter

Foxes into hedgehogs: Berlin and Tolstoy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-238) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781618116802

1618116800

9781618110053

1618110055

OCLC:

1135591334

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access