Tolstoy’s Self-Portrait In this semiautobiographical trilogy, Tolstoy imagined a friendship between his boyhood-self, the narrator, and his young-adult self, Prince Dimitri Nechludoff, who is also the hero of hist last novel, Resurrection. Tolstoy was only in his 20s when he wrote the trilogy, but his self-portrait was stunningly accurate. In him there were two personalities, both of which I thought beautiful. One, which I loved devotedly, was kind, mild, forgiving, […]
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