Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers

Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers Andrew Donskov


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Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers





The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoys long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of how to live a good life and what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy? These questions plagued him his entire life. The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov, Verigin, and Novikov) reveal that Tolstoy was matched as a profound thinker by his correspondents, as they converse on religious-moral questions, the meaning of life and how one should strive to find it, and on a wide array of burning social and personal problems. Reading through the analysis and the extensively annotated letters as a unified whole, elucidates the progressive development of the ideas they shared (and where these diverged) and which guided Tolstoys and his correspondents lives. Juxtaposing Tolstoys letters with those of his four sectarian correspondents makes them even more significant as it shows them in their original context a dialogue, or conversation. Also, with the aim to present the conversation in an even broader context, Andrew Donskov briefly discusses Tolstoys relationship with peasants in general as well as with each of the four individual writers in particular. In addition, he provides a background sketch of two major religious groups, namely the Doukhobors and the Molokans, both of which still claim sizeable populations of followers in North America today. Originally published in 2008 by the Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa under the title Leo Tolstoy and Russian peasant sectarian writers: Selected correspondence, the expanded University of Ottawa Press edition includes 44 letters never published in English, out of the total 155 letters. Correspondence translated by John Woodsworth. This book is published in English. - La paysannerie traverse la longue carrière de Tolstoï. Son obsession avec cette classe sociale doit être comprise non seulement comme une préoccupation sociale ou humanitaire, mais aussi comme une réponse aux questions « Comment mener une belle vie? » et « Quel est le sens de la vie que la mort inévitable ne saurait détruire? » qui lont hanté sa vie durant. La correspondance quont échangée Tolstoï et quatre écrivains sectaires et liés à la paysannerie (Bondarev, Zheltov, Verigin et Novikov) révèle de grands penseurs. Au fil des échanges, les questions de religion et de moralité, du sens de la vie et comment faire pour le découvrir, et dune gamme de questions sociales et personnelles du jour sont abordées. La lecture et lanalyse de cet ensemble déchanges épistolaires enrichis de notes détaillées témoigne du développement progressif des idées quils partageaient (ainsi que leurs divergences), et qui ont guidé la vie de chacun dentre eux. La juxtaposition des lettres de Tolstoï et de ses quatre correspondants sectaires, qui sont présentées dans leur contexte original de dialogue ou de conversation permet den pleinement apprécier limportance. Dans le but de situer cette conversation dans un contexte plus grand, Andrew Donskov aborde la question de la relation quentretient Tolstoï avec les paysans en général, dune part, de même quavec chacun de ces quatre écrivains, dautre part. Il offre par ailleurs un texte de présentation sur les Doukhobors et les Molokans, deux groupes confessionnaux qui comptent encore aujourdhui un nombre appréciable dadeptes en Amérique du Nord. Ce livre est publié en anglais.

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