TOLSTOY, LEVRESURRECTION
(ВОСКРЕСЕНИЕ)
Raduga, Moskva, 1990
edícia Russian Classics
ilustrácia L. Pasternak
5. vydanie
ISBN 5-05-000523-X
beletria, román
496 s., angličtina
hmotnosť: 494 g
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stav: výborný, nečítaná
1,70 €
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Once the Russian lawyer, Anatoly Koni, told Lev Tolstoy about an incident he had witnessed in the course of his professional duties: during a trial for theft, one of the members of the jury, a young aristocrat, recognised the accused to be a woman he had once seduced and abandoned. His conscience shaken, he decided to marry her to atone for his guilt. Such Was the true-life story which formed the stimulus for Resurrection, one of Tolstoy's major works.
Tolstoy spent ten years (from 1889 to 1899) working on the novel, which contains the essence of his mature views on most of the fundamental questions of life. The story tells about Katyusha Maslova, her fail and regeneration, against the background of all of Russia, suffering and rebellious, at the end of the last century. Tolstoy portrays aristocrats and peasants, high society salons and gloomy prisons, the courthouse and the various stages of a convict's existence. Tolstoy tells us almost as much about Russian life as all the rest of our literature put together," Maxim Gorky said.
The first Illustrator of Lev Tolstoy's novel, Resurrection, was the famous Russian artist Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945), whose drawings are reproduced in the present edition. Leonid Pasternak studied art first in a private studio in Moscow and then at the Munich Academy of Arts. He taught at his own drawing school in Moscow, at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and at the Higher Applied Arts School (Vkhutemas). He was a founder-member of the Union of Russian Artists. Typical of his work is a lyrical. dramatic manner of conveying air and lights the most important parts of a work lit up, and the surrounding space plunged in shadow.
From 1917 he worked intensively at the genre of portraits painting and did a series of drawing from life of Lenin. From 1921, Leonid Pasternak lived in Germany and then in Great Britain.
I decided tobegin with sketches of the main characters in the story and chose two, contrasting scenes from the text ''Katyusha's Morning" and "Nekhlyudov's Morning". What torment I went through before plucking up enough courage to show them to Lev Nikolayevich. But at last that terrifying moment is behind me. I drink in his praise, hear the encouraging exclamations of father and daughter, Tatyana Lvovna, who say that in Katyusha and Nekhlyudov I've managed to convey almost a portrait likeness of their prototypes, in other words people whom I'd never seen and of whom I knew nothing.
Leonid Pasternak
(From Notes of Different Years, Moscow, Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers, 1975, p. 192.)
