Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Andrew Donskov and John Woodsworth, eds. Lev Tolstoy and the Concept of Brotherhood. Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Ottawa 22-24 February 1996. New York, Ottawa, and Toronto: Legas, 1996. xiv, 228 pp. Paper.

While no one theme in Tolstoy's writings could be said to accommodate or exemplify all of his many interests and preoccupations, "brotherhood" seems particularly worthy of attention. As the essays in this volume testify, the theme of brotherhood can be found not only in Tolstoy's fictional work (both pre- and post-conversion), but also in his journalistic, ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Donna Tussing Orwin, ed.: The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy.(Book review)
; ...Orwin, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...genres and subjects that represent Leo Tolstoy's writing career. Nevertheless, this volume...with a forty-seven-page Chronology of Tolstoy's life that is the most detailed to date...
Tolstoy's American Visitors: Memoirs of Personal Encounters, 1868-1909.
; TOLSTOY NOT ONLY RECEIVED HUNDREDS OF LETTERS FROM Americans--in...conversations with American visitors not only enriched Tolstoy's understanding of American life and culture, but contributed...impression of Americans and their unusual, young country. Tolstoy seemed to believe that they were the most ...
The Liberation of Tolstoy. A Tale of Two Writers
; Ivan Bunin. The Liberation of Tolstoy. A Tale of Two Writers. Thomas G. Marullo...of this book features only a picture of Tolstoy with the result that the reader may well...the tale of two writers, or just one: Tolstoy. Of the 353 pages of text, 145 contain...
Tolstoy.
; TOLSTOY. By A.N. Wilson. Hamish Hamilton; 572 pages; 16.95 [British pounds]. Norton; $25 IN SEPTEMBER 1901 Leo Nicolayevich Tolstoy, aged 76 and recovering from two bouts of malaria that...novels as for being Saint Lev , the god-figure of a new Tolstoyan creed. A.N. Wilson, an astoundingly prolific English ...
Count Tolstoy . . . is a Utah professor
; He's a Tolstoy. Like Shakespeare and Rockefeller and...cachet. And a certain burden. If you're a Tolstoy, a distant cousin of the famous Russian...to your advantage, says Count Nikolai Tolstoy. If your name is Tolstoy and you're related...
Theatre: Tolstoy The Aldwych, London
; Performing the title role in Tolstoy at the Aldwych, the celebrated Broadway...under the fond illusion that he's Tolstoy in the way that some cranks believe...take place in 1910, the last year of Tolstoy's long life. Dressed in a belted peasant...
Tolstoy family reunion as panoramic as 'War and Peace'
; YASNAYA POLYANA, Russia: "It's so wonderful to be a Tolstoy," exclaimed Tatyana Tolstoy-Paus, 87, after gingerly stepping off a train that...to celebrate what has been billed as the largest Tolstoy family reunion ever. Babies and grandmothers, some...
The Enduring Enigma Of Lev Tolstoy
; TOLSTOY By A.N. Wilson Norton. 572 pp. $25 WHEN EXTENSIVE portions of Lev Tolstoy's nearly lifelong diaries were first published in English...assistance, then you will probably have little use for Tolstoy. This is not to say that Wilson adds nothing of his own...
An Encounter with Tolstoy
; ...conscience she had so long admired-Count Leo Tolstoy. More than a novelist, his writings such...Russia and the hoped-for meeting with Tolstoy. Addams had a letter of introduction to Alymer Maude, the Englishman who was Tolstoy's authorized translator. They arrived...
Sunday Review Features: Tolstoy's pounds 1.5 million dilemma Time Of My Life
; THE Tolstoy-Aldington affair refuses to lie down. It...famous libel action against Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who had accused him in a widely circulated...Chief-of-Staff to the Corps Commander, and Tolstoy claimed that he had been responsible for...