Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi by Maksim Gorky written by Maxim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book is composed of fragmentary notes written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nicolayevitch at Gaspra in the Crimea. They cover the period of Tolstoi's serious illness and of his subsequent recovery. The notes were carelessly jotted down on scraps of paper, and I thought I had lost them, but recently I have found some of them. Then I have also included here an unfinished letter written by me under the influence of the "going away" of Leo Nicolayevitch from Yassnaya Polyana, and of his death. I publish the letter just as it was written at the time, and without correcting a single word. And I do not finish it, for somehow or other this is not possible. M. GORKY.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maxim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally publlished in Russia in 1919, the first half of this book, consisting of notes, was written between 1900 and 1901 when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living in the Crimea. The second half consists of a letter written by Gorky in 1910 at the time of Tolstoi's death. Additional notes, not included in the first Russian edition, have been included in this English translation published in 1920 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, which was at the forefont of publishing translations of foreign works, particularly from the Russian.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maksim Gorky and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi written by Maksim Gorky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I The thought which beyond others most often and conspicuously gnaws at him is the thought of God. At moments it seems, indeed, not to be a thought, but a violent resistance to something which he feels above him. He speaks of it less than he would like, but thinks of it always. It can scarcely be said to be a sign of old age, a presentiment of death - no, I think that it comes from his exquisite human pride, and - a bit - from a sense of humiliation: for, being Leo Tolstoy, it is humiliating to have to submit one's will to a streptococcus. If he were a scientist, he would certainly evolve the most ingenious hypotheses, make great discoveries. II H3e has wonderful hands - not beautiful, but knotted with swollen veins, and yet full of a singular expressiveness and the power of creativeness. Probably Leonardo da Vinci had hands like that. With such hands one can do anything. Sometimes, when talking, he will move his fingers, gradually close them into a fist, and then, suddenly opening them, utter a good, full-weight word. He is like a god, not a Sabaoth or Olympian, but the kind of Russian god who "sits on a maple throne under a golden lime tree," not very majestic, but perhaps more cunning than all the other gods. III He treats Sulerzhizky with the tenderness of a woman. For Tchekhov his love is paternal - in this love is the feeling of the pride of a creator - Suler rouses in him just tenderness, a perpetual interest and rapture which never seems to weary the sorcerer. Perhaps there is something a little ridiculous in this feeling, like the love of an old maid for a parrot, a pug dog, or a tom-cat. Suler is a fascinatingly wild bird from some strange unknown land. A hundred men like him could change the face, as well as the soul, of a provincial town. Its face they would smash and its soul they would fill with a passion for riotous, brilliant, headstrong wildness. One loves Suler easily and gaily, and when I see how carelessly women accept him, they surprise and anger me. Yet under this carelessness is hidden, perhaps, caution. Suler is not reliable. What will he do to-morrow? He may throw a bomb or he may join a troupe of public-house minstrels. He has energy enough for three life-times, and fire of life - so much that he seems to sweat sparks like over-heated iron.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi by Maxim Gorky Authorized Translation from the Russian by S S Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf written by Maksim Gorʹkij and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gorky s Tolstoy Other Reminiscences written by Maksim Gorky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of a kind unmatched by that of any other writer in the first half of the twentieth century. Prodigiously gifted and prolific, riddled with contradictions, praised increasingly for political rather than literary reasons, he left a vast body of writing that contains acknowledged masterpieces alongside many currently neglected works that still await impartial assessment. Taken together, the pieces in this book (many of them based on fuller texts than those of previously published translations) present a surprising and unfamiliar Gorky--a figure who, once the clichés are stripped away from him, becomes ever more fascinating and enigmatic as man, as writer, and as historical figure. Among the volume's selections are portraits of Gorky by four particularly astute observers: poet Vladislav Khodasevich, critics Boris Eikhenbaum and Georgy Adamovich, and novelist Evgeny Zamiatin. Fanger's generous annotations and brilliant introduction will make this book indispensable to every reader with an interest in Tolstoy, Gorky, modern Russian literature and politics, or the art of the memoir.
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