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Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction
Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction
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  • Introduces the life and work of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists ever to have lived
  • Explores Tolstoy's celebrated novels and nonfiction writings to reveal the core themes and thought at the heart of his work
  • Considers Tolstoy's different roles as a writer, thinker, and activist
  • Traces the influence of Tolstoy's work on modern literature, and highlights those aspects of his work that are still relevant today
  • Addresses the eternal questions of love, death, war, peace, faith, and activism found in Tolstoy's writings

  
War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator in psychological prose and forerunner of stream of consciousness; and as a genius at using fiction to reveal the mysteries of love and death. At the time of his death in 1910, Tolstoy was known the world over as both a great writer and as a merciless critic of institutions that perpetrated, bred, or tolerated injustice and violence in any form. 
  
Yet among literary critics and rival writers, it has become a commonplace to disparage Tolstoy's " In this Very Short Intorduction Liza Knapp explores the heart of Tolstoy's work. Focussing on his masterpieces of fiction which have stood the test of time, she analyses his works of non-fiction alongside them, and sketches out the core themes in Tolstoy's art and thought, and the interplay between them. Tracing the continuing influence of Tolstoy's work on modern literature, Knapp highlights those aspects of his writings that remain relevant today.

Index: 

1: From "Ant Brothers" to loving all as brothers and sisters
2: Tolstoy on War and on Peace
3: Tolstoy on love
4: Tolstoy on death
5: What Tolstoy believed
6: What then must we do?
7: Tolstoy's art and Tolstoy's devices
Further reading
Index

About the author: 

Liza Knapp is a Professor of Slavic Languages at Columbia University; before coming to Columbia in 2004, she taught for a decade in the Slavic Department at the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches and writes widesly on the subjects of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and is the author of Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy's Labyrinth of Plots(2016), and The Annihilation of Inertia: Dostoevsky and Metaphysics (1996). Knapp is also the co-editor of the MLA Approaches to Teaching Anna Karenina (2003), and the editor of Dostoevsky's The Idiot: A Critical Companion (1998).

Product details

ISBN : 9780198813934

Author: 
Liza Knapp
Pages
168 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
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Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction

Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction

Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction