#lev tolstoj

[okuryazarlar]

İyi ki doğdun Tolstoy!

[terymlxyrstdus]

my favourite thing about art heist baby are regulus’ annotations - more specifiecly him drawing hearts in the margins in the ball scene of anna karenina. Because it just proves that regulus is big sopp a he preffers anna a vronskij even though anna is married and it’s not "right" but it’s that kind of love that gives you rush and you don’t give a fuck that people will say it’s wrong and that EXACTLY regulus when it comes to him and james

[cinematic-literature]

L'amica geniale S03E07 (Ancora tu)

Book title

Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert

Anna Karenina (1877) by Lev Tolstoj

Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe

[aniaks]

What do I want? To live and not to suffer.

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

[animula-vagula-blandula]

-Sonata a Kreutzer, Lev Tolstoj

[jackxo]

“The sun waits for no man and was sinking lower and lower.”

-Leo Tolstoy, “How Much Land Does A Man Need?”

[ragazzoarcano]

“Sapeva che l'unico modo

di salvarsi dalla gente

era quello di nascondere

le proprie ferite.”

— Lev Tolstoj, Anna Karenina

[ohsalome]

[somehow---here]

Lev Tolstoj, "Anna Karenina"

[thatstudyblrontea]

Can we please talk about Sof'ja Tolstaya?

She became Leo Tolstoy's wife at 18, when he was 34. She was an amazing and strong woman, who had to deal with an incredibly misogynistic and lunatic husband, 13 children, and was forced to give up on all her literary aspirations – yet she wrote.

Her main works of fiction, two novellas she wrote as a response to her husband's The Kreutzer Sonata, didn't get published during her life, for they were extremely critical of Lev's work.

Whose fault? and Song Without Words were rediscovered and made accessible to a wider public only in the 21st century, along with her diaries, spanning through decades, and an autobiography.

Sofja (head of the table, to the right), and Lev (first man on her right) with their family; Cassell and Co, NY, 1911

Some useful sources:

Wikipedia article dedicated to her

short and eloquent article on The Guardian

free online copy of Autobiography of Sophie Andreevna Tolstoi on archive.org

SoundCloud podcast episode "Sofia Tolstoy" by John Sandoe Books (I haven't personally listened to it)

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

Non c’era risposta, eccetto quella generica risposta che la vita dà ai problemi più complicati e insolubili. La risposta è questa: bisogna vivere delle esigenze della giornata, ossia dimenticare.

Lev Tolstoj, “Anna Karenina”

[ma-pi-ma]

Un desiderio di desideri: la malinconia.

Lev Tolstoj

[cinematic-literature]

Fingernails (2023) by Christos Nikou

Book title: War and Peace (Война и мир in Russian; 1865-1869) by Lev Tolstoj

[aniaks]

"And death...where is it?" He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?"  There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

[animula-vagula-blandula]

-Felicità familiare, Lev Tolstòj