Le Non-agir" de Léon Tolstoï. ecrivain russe (1828-1910).

Le Non-agir

Cette immense fresque de l'aristocratie mêlée au peuple russe, à la ville comme aux champs, fait partie des grandes oeuvres de l'humanité. "En elles, il y a tout: les vrais hommes; les vraies femmes, l'amour et la haine, "l'élite" et le peuple, la naissance et la mort, le travail et la pensée."

Anna Karénine 1

Un cheval est chahuté par ses pairs car il est vieux. Il l'a été par les hommes car il est pie. Car il est différent. Pourtant, il cache un surprenant passé... En donnant la parole à ce cheval, Tolstoï évoque la décrépitude de la vieillesse, et prouve qu'il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences. Deux récits, deux prodiges déchus.

Le Cheval

I have not always been possessed of the religious ideas set forth in this book. For thirty-five years of my life I was, in the proper acceptation of the word, a nihilist,—not a revolutionary socialist, but a man who believed in nothing. Five years ago faith came to me; I believed in the doctrine of Jesus, and my whole life underwent a sudden transformation. What I had once wished for I wished for no longer, and I began to desire what I had never desired before. What had once appeared to me right now became wrong, and the wrong of the past I beheld as right. My condition was like that of a man who goes forth upon some errand, and having traversed a portion of the road, decides that the matter is of no importance, and turns back. What was at first on his right hand is now on his left, and what was at his left hand is now on his right; instead of going away from his abode, he desires to get back to it as soon as possible. My life and my desires were completely changed; good and evil interchanged meanings. Why so? Because I understood the doctrine of Jesus in a different way from that in which I had understood it before.

Ma Religion

To read Tolstoy's early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great writer and thinker. In The Raid Tolstoy explores the nature of courage itself, a theme central to War and Peace. In The Cossacks he sets forth all the motifs of his whole future life and his work. The hero is a young man-about-town who has squandered half his fortune - and his life - and retires to the desultory existence of a regiment stationed in mountainous Cossack country, where he takes part in the daily life of a Cossack village. But his love for the beautiful Maryanka precipitates a conflict between the belief that "Happiness lies in living for others" and a passion that sweeps self-abnegation aside. As Romain Roland says, "The full force of Tolstoy's descriptive powers is already expressed in this splendid [novel] and Tolstoy's realism shows itself with equal force in depicting human nature."

Les Cosaques

Écrite en deux semaines, la pièce qui suit s’inspire d’un fait divers qui défraya la chronique en son temps : un paysan avait avoué avoir tué le nouveau-né de sa belle-fille alors âgée de 16 ans. Tolstoï nous plonge ainsi dans un univers sombre aux frontières les plus obscures et les plus effrayantes de la psychée humaine, un univers dans lequel il est question de haine, de jalousie et de violence, cette dernière étant ici poussée à ses extrêmes, jusqu’au meurtre. La pièce, bien que jugèe formidable par Alexandre III, fut initialement interdite pour cause d’immoralité.

La Puissance Des Ténèbres

Excerpt from L'Église Et I'état, Et, les Événements Actuels en RussieSans répéter ici qu'il y a des centaines de vraies croyances pareilles, cette définition ne dit rien et semble aussi insuffisante que la définition de la chapelle comme réunion des vrais musiciens. Mais derrière cela on voit le fil blanc. L'église est vraie et unique et il y a en elle les pasteurs et le troupeau, et les pasteurs, établis par Dieu, enseignent cette doctrine vraie et unique, c'est-à-dire Nous jurons que tout ce que nous vous disons est la vraie vê rité.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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Anna Karenine - Tome I By Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Anna Karénine - Tome I

Excerpt from Une Lettre InediteMais si, en 1887, ni la Sonate Kreutzer, ni Qu'est cc que l'art? N'avaient paru, la violente antipathie de Tolstoy pour l'art moderne n'en percait pas moins au travers de tous ses ecrits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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