Name: Confesion
SKU: 1453998
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Author: Léon Tolstói
ISBN: 9788496834392

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marta Rebón

Léon Tolstói

Publisher

Acantilado

Collection

Cuadernos del Acantilado

Year

2008

Language

Spanish

Pages

152

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8496834395

ISBN13

9788496834392

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Confesion"

«Mi vida es una broma estúpida y cruel que alguien me ha gastado», escribía el autor de Guerra y paz en el cenit de su vida, cuando había alcanzado con sus libros riqueza y celebridad mundial. La desazón profunda que se apodera de Tolstói parece conducirlo inexorablemente hacia el suicidio. Comienza así una búsqueda existencial desesperada que pronto agotará las posibilidades ofrecidas por su siglo a los hombres de su condición?las ciencias, la filosofía, las artes?y culminará en una conversión espiritual que habría de transformar para siempre su vida y su pensamiento. La conversión del gran escritor ruso implica ante todo recusar la moralidad del desencanto y el cinismo estéril en la que él mismo ha militado, para abrirse a la sabiduría genuina de los hombres sencillos, esos «creadores de vida», en cuyos gestos y tradiciones «refulge lo sagrado». La Confesión de Tolstói, crónica apasionada y franca de una búsqueda vital de la verdad, se inscribe lo mismo en la tradición de las grandes conversiones religiosas que en la de las autobiografías intelectuales de esos espíritus libres que no se dejaron arredrar por las ortodoxias.

Léon Tolstói

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Lev Nikoláievich also known in Spanish as León Tolstói; 28 de agosto/ 9 de septiembre de 1828- Astápovo, now Lev Tolstói, Lipetsk province, 7 de noviembre/ 20 de noviembre de 1910) was a Russian novelist, considered one of the most important writers in world literature. His childhood was marked by the early loss of his parents, leading him to be raised by his aunts. From a young age, Tolstói showed an unusual intellectual restlessness and critical view towards traditional education, abandoning his traditional education studies, leaving university studies in Law and Oriental Languages at Kazan University after finding no meaning in them

His two most famous works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are considered the pinnacle of Russian realism, alongside works by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1910; the fact that he never won is a major controversy of the Nobel Prize.

He is globally known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realistic fiction. He first achieved literary success in his youth with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856), and Sebastopol Sketches (1855), based on his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstói's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novels such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murat (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.

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