Жизнь Льва Толстого: опыт прочтения. 3-е изд.

Lev Tolstoi davno stal vizitnoi kartochkoi russkoi kulturie, no v sovremennoi Rossii ego vospriiatie neredko zatumaneno stereotipami, idushimi ot sovetskoi tradicii, shkolniem prepodavaniem, jelaniem protivopostavit Tolstogo-hudojnika Tolstomu-mieslitelu. Mejdu tem imenno segodnia Tolstoi porazitelno aktualen: ideia nenasilstvennogo soprotivleniia, vegetarianstvo, daunshifting, trebovanie otkaza ot voennoi slujbie, borba za sohranenie prirodie, otnoshenie k lubvi i k seksualnosti vse, chto kazalos ego strannostu, stanovitsia miroviem intellektualniem meinstrimom. Novaia kratkaia biografiia velikogo pisatelia proslejivaet osnovniee linii ego sudbie i tvorchestva. Hudojestvennoe i filosofskoe nasledie Tolstogo rassmatrivaetsia zdes naravne s voenniem opietom, krestianskim trudom i semeinoi tragediei. Andrei Zorin istorik literaturie, professor Oksfordskogo universiteta i MVShSEN.

Leo Tolstoy has long been a hallmark of Russian culture, but in modern Russia his perception is often clouded by stereotypes coming from the Soviet tradition, school teaching, and the desire to contrast Tolstoy the artist with Tolstoy the thinker. Meanwhile, it is today that Tolstoy is strikingly relevant: the idea of nonviolent resistance, vegetarianism, downshifting, the requirement to refuse military service, the struggle for nature conservation, attitudes towards love and sexuality, everything that seemed strange to him, is becoming the world intellectual mainstream. A new short biography of the great writer traces the main lines of his fate and work. Tolstoy's artistic and philosophical legacy is viewed here on a par with military experience, peasant labor, and family tragedy. Andrey Zorin is a literary historian, professor at the University of Oxford and the Moscow Institute of Economics.