On life : a critical edition / Leo Tolstoy ; edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya ; translated from the Russian by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xii, 246 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780810138032
- 0810138034
- 9780810138049
- 0810138042
- O zhizni. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the summer of 1886, shortly before his fifty-eighth birthday, Leo Tolstoy was seriously injured while working in the fields of his estate. Bedridden for over two months, Tolstoy began writing a meditation on death and dying that soon developed into a philosophical treatise on life, death, love, and the overcoming of pessimism. Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, the final work, On Life , describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality.
After its completion, On Life was suppressed by the tsars, attacked by the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, and then censored by the Stalinist regime. This critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy's drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language. It includes a detailed introduction and annotations, as well as historical material, such as early drafts, documents related to the presentation of an early version at the Moscow Psychological Society, and responses to the work by philosophers, religious leaders, journalists, and ordinary readers of Tolstoy's day.
"On Life originally completed in Russian under the title O zhizni (1886-87)."
Includes bibliographical references.
List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Tolstoy's On life and its times / Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- A note on the text -- On life / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Editor's notes -- Historical supplement / selected, translated, and annotated by Inessa Medzhibovskaya -- Tolstoy's diary (May 1886-February 1887) -- Tolstoy's letter to A. K. Diterikhs (September-October 1886) -- "The concept of life": Tolstoy's talk at the Moscow Psychological Society (March 14, 1887) -- Letters concerning On life, Aleksandra Andreevna Tolstaya and Lev Tolstoy -- Letter to Nikolai Grot, against Tolstoy and On life, Archbishop Nikanor of Kherson and Odessa -- "A little chronicle": a reader's response to critics of On life -- Vladimir Soloviev's unsent letter to Tolstoy (circa 1889-90) -- Nikolai Grot's comparison of On life with Nietzsche's writings -- Letter to the editor from P. K. Novitskaya.