Tolstoy: Plays: Volume I: 1856-1886 (European Drama Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810111101 ISBN 13: 9780810111103

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist; yet this part of his oeuvre has been consistently neglected by scholars and readers alike. Because the plays are satirical, didactic, and colored by complex peasant dialect, earlier translations have been flawed. Now the noted Slavic philologist Marvin Kantor and Tatiana Tulchinsky have prepared the first complete English translations of Tolstoy's plays. These latter pieces provide fascinating insight into Tolstoy's life and his development as a writer.

Volume One includes:
A Family of Gentlefolk
A Practical Man
An Uncle's Blessing
Free Love
An Infected Family
The Nihilist
Dramatization of the Legend about Aggeus
The First Moonshiner

About this title

About the Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Marvin Kantor is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Northwestern University and the author of Dramatic Works of D. I. Fonvizin and The Origins of Christianity in Bohemia.

 

Tanya Tulchinsky manages the book department at the Russian Press Service, Inc., and has translated into Russian the works of William Faulkner and D. H. Lawrence, among others.

 

Andrew Baruch Wachtel is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810111101
• ISBN 13: 9780810111103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191