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Loading... The Devil (1911)by Leo Tolstoy
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Vraiment super ! la lutte face à cette tentation. Une femme, au châle rouge, jolie, paysanne abandonnée de son mari qui travaille à la ville. puis le personnage principal se marie et il faut échapper à cette tentation diabolique. Un voyage, un peu de répit puis cette paysanne revient à la charge. Notre pauvre homme ne sait comment sans débarrasser. Il est dans les grands sentiments, et la seule issue n'est pas d'en parler à sa femme mais de commettre l'irréparable. après la légèreté vient le tragique de la fin. Magnifique ! no reviews | add a review
"Leo Tolstoy is known for epic novels that brilliantly dissect society, but the novella The Devil may be the most personally revealing and startling fiction he ever wrote. He thought it so scandalous, in fact, that he hid the manuscript in the upholstery of a chair in his office so his wife wouldn't find it, and he would never allow it to be published in his lifetime. Perhaps that's because the gripping tale of an aristocratic landowner slowly overcome with unrelenting sexual desire for one of the peasants on his estate was strikingly similar to an affair Tolstoy himself had. Regardless, the tale presented here with the two separate endings Tolstoy couldn't decide between is a scintillating study of sexual attraction and human obsession." No library descriptions found. |
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Et qui est le diable ? Est-ce elle ou est-il en moi ? ( )