Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Tolstoy, Leo) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth As a series of pen-pictures of the author´s early life, this book will, for many persons, convey more than the fullest and most connected autobiography of the same period could have done. Still more, for such persons, will it surpass any study - no matter how learnedly analytical and scientifically reasoned a study - which could be written, or which has been written, by the most intimate friend or the most enthusiastic disciple of the master. For the very reason that so many of these little sketches seem so slight - that they seem to touch upon matters so trivial as scarcely to be worth recording in a diary - they suggest the more: and therein we see one aspect of Tolstoi´s consummate art. The pictures contain not a single line too much; and they lack not a single line necessary to complete the representation of the scene or image intended to be conveyed. Each scene is a tableau in itself; yet at no point, on the whole being pieced together, do the several episodes fail to fall into their allotted places in the "moving picture" which the author intended to set before the eyes of the reader. The book is not in any sense an apologia pro vita sua; it is too sincere - it is even too brutally truthful - for that. Tolstoi does not spare his youthful faults, but writes without gloss or extenuation as he lays bare some of the petty failings which showed themselves in his early career as they do in those of all young people who are made of ordinary human flesh and blood. Tolstoi, like more than one great thinker and teacher of mankind, suffered a little in his influence from devotees who could not bring themselves to admit that in the object of their devotion lay any of those weaknesses of humanity which alone enable an artist - whether an artist in words or an artist in the plastic media to touch his creations to actual, pulsing life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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