Redemption and two other Plays Paperback - 2017

Tolstoy name Frenchified Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, born 9 September (28 August) 1828 in Yasnaya Polyana and died on November 20 (November 7) 1910 Astapovo, Russia is a famous writer especially for his novels and short stories that portray the life of the Russian people at the time of the tsars, but also for his essays, in which he took a position with respect to civil and ecclesiastical powers and wanted to highlight The great stakes of civilization. War and Peace (1869), Tolstoy took ten years to write and that is one of his great novels, stands the historical and realistic picture of all social classes at the time of the invasion of Russia by troops Napoleon in 1812, in a vast fresco of the complexities of social life and the subtleties of human psychology, from which emanates a profound and original reflection on history and violence in human life. Tolstoy is a writer whose talent was quickly recognized, which is known for autobiographical stories of his childhood and youth, and his life as a soldier in Sevastopol (Crimea). He became very famous, as he ardently desired, with the novel Anna Karenina in 1877. But he was not happy, anguished and nihilistic. At the end of a research as fervent as that of celebrity, conducted in a rational way to answer his existential and philosophical questions, he enthusiasm for the doctrine of Christ. From then on and to the end of his life, he expresses his ideal of truth, good, justice and peace, still sometimes in fictions and short stories, but especially in essays. Advocating for manual work, life in contact with nature, the rejection of materialism, self-denial and detachment from family and society, confident that the mere communication of the truth of a person to another eventually would disappear All the superstitions, cruelties and contradictions of life. On the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution and against the threat of the Great War, the only reasonable life is that stated by the doctrine of Christ, not patriotism, national churches, socialism or revolution.