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Köp båda 2 för 490 krBrilliantly conceived and executed, this slender volume should hold great appeal to both teachers of literature and students of life ... In her masterful translation, Lodge captures the writer's full stylistic register, from his quiet lyricism, lucid metaphors, fleshy descriptions, and arresting juxtapositions to his at times torturous syntax, defamiliarizing word choice, and scathing, mirthless wit. Like his contemporaries, modern readers cannot help but marvel at the range and originality of Tolstoy's experiments in the literature of death, from the felling of a tree at the close of "Three Deaths " to the dark inner worlds of characters drawing their last breath. Lodge's inclusion of "Strider"-a short story told from the perspective of a dying horse-feels especially timely in light of the recent turn in literary criticism toward animal studies ... Taken together, Lodge's selections from Tolstoy's oeuvre form a sort of modern dance macabre in which death, indifferent and inhuman, fells not only sinners from all stations of life but also plants, animals, self, and other. As her volume amply demonstrates, Tolstoy-more than a century after his own storied death at the Astapovo train station-remains as vital as ever."" - Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Montclair State University
Kirsten Lodge is Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literature and Humanities at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas.
Introduction The Death of Ivan Ilyich Strider Three Deaths In Context Killing Animals, Eating Animals from Leo Tolstoy, The First Step from Howard Williams, Preface to The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating (1882) From Tolstoy's Letters Concerning Death Letter of Oct. 17, 1860 to Afanasy Fet (on the death of Tolstoy's brother Nikolai from tuberculosis Letter of May 1, 1868 to Aleksandra Tolstaya, Tolstoy's grandmother (on "Three Deaths") Other Writings by Tolstoy from Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Chapter 27: Grief (1852) from Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878 from Leo Tolstoy, Confession (1879) from Leo Tolstoy, "Notes of a Madman" (unfinished; begun in 1884 and published posthumously) Critical Reception from Nikolai Leskov, "On the Kitchen Muzhik and Other Matters: Notes on Certain Reviews of Count Leo Tolstoy's Work" (1886) from Dmitry Pisarev, "`Three Deaths': A Story by Count Leo Tolstoy" (1859) Nineteenth-Century Images