Leo Tolstoy

The Power of Darkness (eBook, ePUB)

A Drama in Five Acts
Übersetzer: Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Best known today as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Count Leo Tolstoy also is acknowledged as a skilled playwright. His five-act drama The Power of Darkness offers a cold and unsparing look at Russian peasant life that illustrates the costs of pursuing personal desires rather than the dictates of morality. The grimly realistic tragedy is based on a real incident, centering on a peasant's confession to a party of wedding guests of his participation in a series of horrific crimes that range from adultery and murder to infanticide.
Tolstoy's moving portrait of a class enslaved by poverty and ignorance was written in 1886, but its performance was suppressed by Russian authorities until 1902. A 1904 version, performed in New York in Yiddish, marked the first successful production of a play by Tolstoy in the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486836966
• Artikelnr.: 54907655

Autorenporträt

Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude