Tolstoy: Plays: Volume III, 1894-1910

by Leo Tolstoy, Tanya Tulchinsky (Translator), Marvin Kantor (Translator), Andrew Wachtel (Introduction)

Overview

Although Tolstoy's fame rests on his novels, he was also a prolific dramatist. Because his plays are satirical, didactic, and colored by complex peasant dialect, earlier translations have been seriously flawed. These imperfect translations, coupled with Tolstoy's famous polemics against Shakespeare and Chekhov, have reinforced the general misapprehension that Tolstoy was not a dramatist.

Now noted Slavic philologist Marvin Kantor and Tatiana Tulchinsky have prepared the first complete English translation of the great writer's plays. This volume contains plays written during the years 1894 to 1910, including:

Peter the Breadman
And the Light Shineth in Darkness
The Living Corpse
The Wisdom of Children
The Traveler and the Peasant
The Cause of It All

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810115989
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	08/05/1998
Series:	European Drama Classics
Edition description:	Translated
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

MARVIN KANTOR is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Northwestern University and the author of Dramatic Works of D. I. Fonvizin and The Origins of Christianity in Bohemia.

TANYA TULCHINSKY manages the book department at the Russian Press Service, Inc., and has translated into Russian the works of William Faulkner and D. H. Lawrence, among others.

ANDREW BARUCH WACHTEL is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University.

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 20, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47