Lev Tolstoy

Tolstoy is a complex personality. On the one hand, he is a great intellectual who influenced the world with his works and thoughts and gained disciples; On the other hand, he is a person with weaknesses, fond of gambling and women. Throughout his life, he suffered from the contradiction between his teachings and his life: While glorifying universal love, he mistreated his wife at home, preached poverty and lived in luxury...

The one who advises to destroy "oneself" for the sake of the glory of the doctrine; but he is someone who cannot help but note every physical problem related to "himself" in his notebooks.

If Henri Troyat was able to create such a comprehensive biography of Tolstoy, he owes this largely to the diaries, notebooks and letters in which Tolstoy was fond of writing himself down. Thanks to them, we can follow Tolstoy's life almost minute by minute, as if we were listening to him from his own words.

And if the main hero of the book is Tolstoy, the one who recreates him in these pages is Henri Troyat with his meticulous work and masterful pen.
When there is a Tolstoy in the literary world, it becomes easy and pleasant to be a man of letters. And even if a person is aware that he has done nothing and is still doing nothing, he can endure it, because Tolstoy creates for everyone and his works answer all the hopes and all beliefs attached to literature.
- ANTON CHEKHOV



Number of Pages: 984

Year of Printing: 2010


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 984

First Printing Year: 2010

Language Turkish