Reviews for Childhood

The average rating for Childhood based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-06 00:00:00 Ashley Gautney "However vivid be one's recollection of the past, any attempt to recall the features of a beloved being shows them to one's vision as through a mist of tears'dim and blurred. Those tears are the tears of the imagination." - Leo Tolstoy, Childhood Childhood, Tolstoy's first novel(la) and the first of his 3 autobiographical novels (Childhood, Boyhood, Youth). Reading Knausgård the last couple years motivated me to want to go back and read these. If the other, later two novellas, are similar to 'Childhood' they are certainly early Tolstoy (a bit rough and experimental), but like reading any great writer's early novels they still tell you something. There is more of Tolstoy exposed, more light shinning on the early stages of one of our great writers. Some of my favorite passages dealt with death (death of his mother, death of his mother's servant) and love. But I also loved Tolstoy reflecting on memory too: "Somehow I seemed to remember something which had never been." If you haven't read: 1. Anna Karenina 2. War and Peace 3. The Death of Ivan Ilych 4. Resurrection 5. A Confession 6. The Cossacks I'd probably read those first. But if you love Tolstoy, you should probably get a copy of the trilogy and start reading. Especially, if you've recently read Knausgård.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-24 00:00:00 Donald Leduc my first tolstoy and i was not disappointed!! really excited to continue this little memoir series and tackle tolstoys bigger works in the future 🙃