Socialisme et christianisme retrace une partie de la pensee de Tolstoi au travers de sa correspondance avec Birioukof.

Socialisme et Christianisme: Correspondance

Anna Karenine est une jeune femme mariee a Alexis Karenine, fidele et mere d'un jeune garcon Serge. Anna Karenine se rend a Moscou chez son frere Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski. Anna tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole. Elle lutte contre cette passion et finit pourtant par s'abandonner avec un bonheur coupable au courant qui la porte vers ce jeune officier. Puis Anna tombe enceinte. Se sentant coupable et profondement deprimee par sa faute, elle decide d'avouer son infidelite a son mari..."

Anna Karénine: Tome 1

Couverte alternative ici.La quête d'absolu s'accorde mal aux convenances hypocrites en vigueur dans la haute société pétersbourgeoise de cette fin du XIXe siècle. Anna Karénine en fera la douloureuse expérience. Elle qui ne sait ni mentir ni tricher - l'antithèse d'une Bovary - ne peut ressentir qu'un profond mépris pour ceux qui condamnent au nom de la morale sa passion adultère. Et en premier lieu son mari, l'incarnation parfaite du monde auquel il appartient, lui plus soucieux des apparences que véritablement peiné par la trahison d'Anna. Le drame de cette femme intelligente, sensible et séduisante n'est pas d'avoir succombé à la passion dévorante que lui inspire le comte Vronski, mais de lui avoir tout sacrifié, elle, sa vie de femme, sa vie de mère. Vronski, finalement lassé, retrouvera les plaisirs de la vie mondaine. Dans son insondable solitude, Anna, qui ne peut paraître à ses côtés, aura pour seule arme l'humiliante jalousie pour faire vivre les derniers souffles d'un amour en perdition. Mais sa quête est vaine, c'est une "femme perdue".

Anna Karénine

"Resurrection - III" de Leon Tolstoi. 1873-1877.

Résurrection - III

Excerpt from La Mort d'Ivan IliitchPiotte Ivanovitch et ma femme sera tres contente. Elle ne pourra plus dire que je n'ai rien fait pour ses pa rents.

La Mort D'Ivan Iliitch

This carefully crafted ebook: "Anna Karenina - The Unabridged Garnett Translation" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Widely considered a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first real novel and Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying enormous popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".
A bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity.
About the Garnett translation: Constance Garnett's translation of Anna Karenina is still among the best. Some scholars feel that her language is closer to the 19th-century sense of the original. Garnett translated seventy volumes of Russian prose for publication, including all of Dostoyevsky's novels. A friend of Garnett's, D. H. Lawrence, was in awe of her matter-of-fact endurance, recalling her "sitting out in the garden turning out reams of her marvelous translations from the Russian. She would finish a page, and throw it off on a pile on the floor without looking up, and start a new page. That pile would be this high--really, almost up to her knees, and all magical."

Anna Karenina - The Unabridged Garnett Translation

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

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a people he considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will drink, he will fall in love and, slowly, he will begin to understand that between people, between cultures, there is often a space that cannot be traversed...'It is the richness of Tolstoy's genius that strikes us most in this story' Virginia Woolf

The Cossacks

J’ai écrit, en 1884, un ouvrage intitulé En quoi consiste ma foi[1], dans lequel, en effet, j’exposais toutes mes croyances.En donnant ma façon d’entendre la doctrine du Christ, je n’ai pas dit pourquoi je considère comme une hérésie cette religion officielle appelée christianisme.Elle se sépare, selon moi, de celle du Christ par bien des divergences au nombre desquelles j’ai tout d’abord constaté la suppression du commandement qui nous interdit de nous opposer au mal par la force. Plus que tout autre, cet écart de doctrine montre avec évidence combien l’Église officielle a dénaturé les principes du Christ.

Socialisme et Christianisme: Correspondance

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