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TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. The eccentricities and achievements of one of history's greatest literary artists, brought brilliantly to life in a monument to the craft of biography...
TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. The eccentricities and achievements of one of history's greatest literary artists, brought brilliantly to life in a monument to the craft of biography...
TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. One of history's greatest writers is brought to life in a monument to the art of biography...
TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. The paradoxes, inconsistencies and greatness of Tolstoy's life and art are brilliantly recreated in the most thorough biography to date of the Russian literary giant...
...Henri Troyat, Russian-born novelist, biographer of Dostoevsky and Pushkin and member of the French Academy, is well aware of the dangers of attempting to "explain" Tolstoy. Instead of offering absolute answers, he approaches his immense task with unflagging respect and fascination for the conflicting variety of ideas and emotions that filled Tolstoy's 82 years. His exhaustive but never exhausting chronology provides a picture of Tolstoy the man, as complete as can be found in any one book. What gives the biography its great stature, however, is not so much its bulk as the masterly stance Troyat takes...