#leo tolstoj

[forislynx]

De hade med sig till hovet idén att i det enkla folket, i enkla människor låg sanning, mirakel och styrka förborgade. [...] Det var förövrigt en idé som förenade alla i de ryska bildade skikten, till och med de allra radikalaste, som hatade tsarerna och hatades av tsarerna. Alla våra "andens stormän", som så ofta var inbördes osams och ofta tog avstånd från varandra - Tolstoj, Dostojevksij, Turgenev - alla riktningar i den ryska filosofins hade denna idé gemensam: att bara det enkla folket, fattigt, svältande, analfabetiskt och kuvat, var i besittning av den gudomliga sanningen. Bara där, i de låga stugornas dunkel, fanns Kristi sanna ande kvar, bevarad av ständigt lidande. Bara hos det enkla folket och ingen annanstans kunde man lära sig vad en sant kristen tillvaro var.

Edvard Radzinskij, Rasputin : Rysslands svarte eminens

[okuryazarlar]

İyi ki doğdun Tolstoy!

Yaşadığı dönemde dünyaya sıradışı kişiliğiyle damga vuran, Rus edebiyatının en önemli yazarlarından, edebî deha Lev Nikolayeviç Tolstoy, 196 yıl evvel bugün dünyaya gelmişti.

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

You're talking about jealousy? I'll tell you about jealousy. Rachmaninoff knew Tchaikovsky, Tolstoj, Prokof'ev, Stravinsky and Arenskij.

[aniaks]

What do I want? To live and not to suffer.

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

[animula-vagula-blandula]

-Felicità familiare, Lev Tolstòj

[academic-vampire]

“The sun waits for no man and was sinking lower and lower.”

-Leo Tolstoy, “How Much Land Does A Man Need?”

[ohsalome]

[winethorn]

mood bc i honest-to-god want to read serials. like imagine reading war & peace or the brothers karamazov in a serial format? whole new experience: forced contemplation on every. single. segment, slow torture— like what? i love pain. sign me up.

[k4renina]

My boy is going through it

[thatstudyblrontea]

Can we please talk about Sof'ja Tolstaya?

She became Leo Tolstoy's wife at 18, when he was 34. She was an amazing and strong woman, who had to deal with an incredibly misogynistic and lunatic husband, 13 children, and was forced to give up on all her literary aspirations – yet she wrote.

Her main works of fiction, two novellas she wrote as a response to her husband's The Kreutzer Sonata, didn't get published during her life, for they were extremely critical of Lev's work.

Whose fault? and Song Without Words were rediscovered and made accessible to a wider public only in the 21st century, along with her diaries, spanning through decades, and an autobiography.

Sofja (head of the table, to the right), and Lev (first man on her right) with their family; Cassell and Co, NY, 1911

Some useful sources:

Wikipedia article dedicated to her

short and eloquent article on The Guardian

free online copy of Autobiography of Sophie Andreevna Tolstoi on archive.org

SoundCloud podcast episode "Sofia Tolstoy" by John Sandoe Books (I haven't personally listened to it)

[diaryofanauthor]

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

Lev Tolstoj, Anna Karenina 

[okuryazarlar]

İyi ki doğdun Tolstoy!

[aniaksx]

"He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking."

[averagepretentiousreader]

Writing advice: Make sure that every scene leads to something meaningful, either for the characters, world building or the plot

Tolstoi: F you, here are 20 pages of mowing grass

[aniaks]

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

[shahabcharacters]

War and Peace