Tolstoy, Stefan Zweig
Tolstoy, Stefan Zweig
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Tolstoy

Author: Stefan Zweig

Narrator: Tyler Boss

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2022

Synopsis

According to Stefan Zweig, no contemporary author, not even Marx or Nietzsche, delivered the radical spiritual shock that Tolstoy's works gave millions and millions of people around the world. But which Tolstoy are we talking about? For Zweig it is the essayist Tolstoy, the radical thinker and incorruptible anarchist. The Tolstoy who claims that the state is the great cover-up of social injustice through a complex system of violence based on parliaments, prisons, judges, tax collectors, the police and armies. The Tolstoy, who asserts that the religious and moral convictions of every individual are inalienable and that no outside power can establish their domain there. This audiobook contains an English translation of an essay about Tolstoy written by Stefan Zweig in his 1928 book „Drei Dichter ihres Lebens: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoi“. The biographical study, which does not skimp on criticism, offers an interesting perspective on what is probably the most important Russian novelist of the 19th century.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna on February 06, 2013

One of the top three biographies I've ever read in my life. Almost liked it as much as reading Tolstoy......more

Goodreads review by Dia on September 23, 2010

For all of its size, this biography of Tolstoy becomes increasingly claustrophobic as it tracks Tolstoy's intellectual development; Tolstoy's intellect seems always to have been driven by guilt, but to have progressed from an intellect that could tolerate guilt to one that could not. Thus Tolstoy be......more

Goodreads review by Grace Tjan on May 29, 2009

Troyat's 700-plus pages biography reads like a Tolstoy novel. It follows Tolstoy's life in detail, quoting extensively from his and his family's copious diaries. His marriage, which started happily enough, and then turned into a nightmare for both him and his wife was morbidly fascinating. It was li......more

Goodreads review by James on January 24, 2018

When you read about what your favorite author's life was like in real life you get a better picture of how they became who they are and a little more on how the characters came to life. Interesting how a lot of those characters match people they knew in real life.......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on February 04, 2017

[URL not allowed] Having immensely appreciated both War and Peace and Anna Karenina in recent years, I picked this book up to try and get acquainted with the great author. Oh dear. Tolstoy was a truly awful person. Having had a couple of (extraordinary) literary successes, he s......more

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