Lev N. Tolstoj

Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch

Glücklos mit einem hohen Beamten verheiratet, verfällt die bezaubernde, kluge und sanftmütige Anna dem jungen OffizierGraf Wronski in unwiderstehlicher Liebe. Eine leidenschaftliche Affäre, die sie weder vor ihrem Mann noch vor der Gesellschaft verheimlicht, nimmt ihren Lauf. Anna Karenina ist bereit, dieser Liebe alles zu opfern.

Roman in acht Teilen

Anna Karenina

Hermann Röhl

Leo Tolstoy

Vor dem Hintergrund der russisch-napoleonischen Kriege erzählt "Krieg und Frieden" in wahrhaft meisterlicher Manier die Geschichte dreier Familien, deren Schicksale eng miteinander verwoben sind. Der Roman, 1863-69 entstanden, ist ein Meilenstein der russischen Literatur. Furios sind die Schilderungen der blutigen Schlachten bei Austerlitz und Borodino, präsize und einfühlsam die Zeichnungen der Charaktere.

Roman

Krieg und Frieden

Auferstehung

vier Erzählungen

Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?

Dorothea Trottenberg

Familienglück

Werner Bergengruen

Padre Sergij

die Urfassung

Peter Sekirin

aufbauende und inspirierende Texte aus aller Welt

Tolstois Kalender der Weisheit

Erich Boehme

Krieg und Frieden, erster Band

Raphael Löwenfeld

Die Kreutzersonate

Fred Ottow

La mort d'Ivan Ilitch

Anna Karenina (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. The character of Anna was likely inspired, in part, by Maria Hartung (Russian spelling Maria Gartung, 1832-1919), the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Soon after meeting her at dinner, Tolstoy began reading Pushkin's prose and once had a fleeting daydream of "a bare exquisite aristocratic elbow," which proved to be the first intimation of Anna's character. Although Russian critics dismissed the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of high life," Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as "the best ever written." The novel is currently enjoying popularity as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written."

Gesammelte Werke

Johannes von Guenther

Leo N. Tolstoi. Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch [Smert' Ivana Il'iča, dt.]

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