Tolstoy and the Novel

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Also includes discussion of Tolstoy's short stories and some of his non-fiction as well as his novels. Bayley is insightful throughout, focusing on a conceptual analysis of Tolstoy's technique, arranged thematically rather than chronologically. Comprehensive analysis of Tolstoy's techniques as a writer.

Author(s): John Bayley
Edition: 1
Publisher: The Viking Press
Year: 1967

Language: English
Commentary: scantailor + ocr + toc
Pages: 321
City: New York

Tolstoy and the novel
Contents
Chronology of Works
Acknowledgments
I The Russian Background
II Inevitable Comparisons
III "Not a novel..." War and Peace
1 Forms
2 Histories
3 Deaths
4 Lives
5 'Understanding' and 'Making it Strange'
6 Sex
7 Dolokhov and the Family
8 Pierre
9 Family and System
10 Pastoral
11 War
IV Endings
V "This novel ..." Anna Karenina
VI Anna Karenina and What is Art?
VII Resurrection
VIII The Caucasus
IX The Nouvelle as Hypothesis
X Tolstoy's Legacy. Dr Zhivago
Index of proper names