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Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, Childhood, the first part of Tolstoy's first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy's emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the "poetry" of childhood—the intense emotions, confusions, and fears attendant upon a young boy, Nikolenka, as he grows up. In the years following, Boyhood and Youth appeared (a fourth volume was planned but never executed), each replete with psychological and philosophical subtleties hitherto unknown in Russian literature. In Scammell's resplendent translation, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth remains one of Tolstoy's major works.
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Mark D Bailey
reviewed Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth on April 10, 2013
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth was Tolstoi's first novel, it is the novel, along with Turgenev's 'Sketches' which, at least in it's first part 'Childhood', best celebrates Russian country life and the peasantry. Some of the descriptions of nature would not look out of place from Turgenev's best works, a lot of the character portraits, sympathetic descriptions of lost, pathetic people, obviously influenced Chekhov. It is also nice to see elements of Leo's oft contradictory personality begin to emerge in the book; from his selfless love of other people to his boundless egoism, from his compassion to his vast imagination, the book is a description of the emergence of a genius; one even sees Tolstoi's literary alter ego's emerge; shy, awkward mawkardishly romantic Levin can be sensed in many of the ball scenes, where an embarassed Leo glowers in the corner. Overall a beautiful book and well worth a read.
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