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Sevastopol Sketches

2013
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Book Synopsis Sevastopol Sketches by : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Download or read book Sevastopol Sketches written by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)" is a collection of three works of historical fiction in which Tolstoy draws upon his real life experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol. The titular location draws its name from that of a city in Crimea and takes place during the Crimean war. The three tales in this collection are respectively titled "Sevastopol in December", "Sevastopol in May", and "Sevastopol in August". In the December tale Tolstoy introduces us to Sevastopol by giving the reader a tour and introducing us to the settings, mannerisms, and background that would relevant in the following tales. In the May tale Tolstoy examines the senselessness of war, musings that would lay the foundation for his much larger work and magnum opus "War and Peace." In the third and final tale the fall of the town is detailed. Published in 1855 "Sevastopol" was written near the beginning of the author's literary career. It is a book in which we begin to see the writer exhibit a quality of prose that would one day establish him as the greatest of all writers in the Russian and any other language.

Sevastopol

2021-06-01 Fiction
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Release : 2021-06-01
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Book Synopsis Sevastopol by : Emilio Fraia

Download or read book Sevastopol written by Emilio Fraia. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, showcasing a powerful new Brazilian voice Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a person’s life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty, semi-abandoned inn in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers. Inspired by Tolstoy’s The Sevastopol Sketches, Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist, in a restrained manner reminiscent of Anton Chekhov, Roberto Bolano, and Rachel Cusk.

Sevastopol Sketches (Crimean War History)

2018-07-11 Fiction
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Release : 2018-07-11
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Book Synopsis Sevastopol Sketches (Crimean War History) by : Leo Tolstoy

Download or read book Sevastopol Sketches (Crimean War History) written by Leo Tolstoy. This book was released on 2018-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sevastopol Sketches, Leo Tolstoy evocatively recollects his experiences at the Siege of Sevastopol in 1854-1855, over the course of three short stories. Although the trio of tales which comprise the Sevastopol Sketches are ostensibly fictional and written in the second person, they accurately recall Tolstoy's experiences as a young man witnessing the Crimean War. All three possess philosophical overtones, with the overarching theme being a vilification of war as a wasteful, senseless and foolish expenditure of human life. The Sevastopol Sketches establish Tolstoy as a pacifist who considered war to be one of the most depraved and lamentable events characterizing mankind. Years after publishing these sketches, Tolstoy would draw upon the Siege of Sevastopol as a critical supplement to the narrative of his epic novel - War and Peace.

Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)

2013 FICTION
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Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches) by : graf Leo Tolstoy

Download or read book Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches) written by graf Leo Tolstoy. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sebastopol Sketches

1986 Fiction
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Release : 1986
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Download or read book The Sebastopol Sketches written by graf Leo Tolstoy. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy wrote the three Sebastopol sketches after serving as an officer in the Russian army during the Crimean War. When in the winter of 1854 he arranged to be transferred to the besieged town of Sebastopol, Tolstoy was spurred on by a fierce patriotism, but also an equally fierce desire to alert the authorities to appalling conditions in the army. He recreates in the "December," "May" and "August" sketches what happened during different phases of the siege, unprecedentedly bringing home to Russia's entire literate public the atrocities of war. Thus, because of the Sketches, Tolstoy has been called the first war correspondent; in terms of his career, they heralded his arrival as a literary celebrity.

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