The Liberation of Tolstoy: A Tale of Two Writers

by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

This first annotated translation of Ivan Bunin's The Liberation of Tolstoy is a timely accompaniment to the ongoing revival of the Russian writer, both in his homeland and the West. Written in 1937, more than two decades after Leo Tolstoy's death, The Liberation of Tolstoy--equal parts biography, memoir, and literary study--serves as a dialogue between two great writers on the proklyatye voprosy, or "damned questions," of life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810117525
• ISBN13: 9780810117525
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"