Lev Tolstoy

🔖 The first book by Victor Shklovsky came out in 1914. Since then he has written more than sixty books, several plays, film scenarios, short stories, and several thousand articles. As a literary critic he has received world-wide recognition. His book about Lev Tolstoy is not a traditional biographical study. Besides telling about the events of Tolstoy's life, Shklovsky gives the story of his creative development, the writing of his major works, examines his views on the mission of literature and art, his philosophy, his religion, his objective role in history.