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Yevgeny sincerely loves his wife and the child she has given him; however, this love resembles more of a social contract, something like a duty, ultimately leading to boredom...
Desire is embodied by Stepanida, with her rustic simplicity and animalistic spontaneity... The desire is controversial: on one hand, it is something natural, therefore permissible; on the other hand, it disrupts family and social order, and thus is deemed improper. Stepanida, who is initially described with sympathy, like a flower in the fields, gradually, as the text unfolds, begins to take on a 'satanic' form...
Tolstoy does nothing more than narrate a terrible story of desire, guilt, and death. He lays out words one after another without changing tone: he does not impose a specific reading of the story upon the reader. The reader must judge for themselves: marriage, infidelity, betrayal - everything is presented before our eyes with the same clarity, the same precision that an object on the table has as illuminated by the rays of the sun.
That is why I believe that, among all novelists, Tolstoy is the greatest...
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
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- Author
- Leo Tolstoy
- Publisher
- Roes
- Original Title
- Devil
- Publishers
- Flows
- Type
- Classical Literature, Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 124
- Release Date
- 10/2012
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Dimensions
- 11x16 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602833469
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