Sometimes it just depends on which one had the first chance to make an impression. The story of Tolstoy's running away from home at the end of his life is well known. It was a few years after the publication of Moby-Dick. In a secondhand bookshop in Naples, Jay Parini (novelist, poet, biographer, scholar) chanced upon the diary of Valentin Bulgakov, Tolstoy's secretary during the final year of the great man's life. and disappointed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented. The Last Station which examines the personal conflicts in the household of Leo Tolstoy is the fruit of a simple brilliant idea by Jay Parini. The book successfully depicts the conflict beween Chertov, Tolstoy's confidant and the spearhead of supporters--both the idealistic and the sycophant--and the Countess Tolstoy and explicates more clearly Tolstoy's own multiple personal demons and conflicts. However soon it began to be coherent, and even more, very dynamic where one can first form an opinion based on something written by Bulgakov, for example, and then read another point of view of the same thing from Chertkov's perspective. Time moves differently underground. When you are underground there is only one direction that matters: upwards, toward the sky. That’s why it is now also the heart of our politics. Parini subsequently discovered that diaries were also kept (and later published) by numerous other members of Tolstoy's circle. . The novel builds dramatically to a climax at the railway station at Astapovo, where Tolstoy thought he was dying alone, although a small army of reporters had gathered from around the world to report on the death of the famous author, who had the status of a saint or rock star in Russian society. The origin of the Station’s name is not certain but it is assumed that it was given in honour of a high ranking Ottoman officer, Haydar Pasha, who had served to the Sultan Selim III. Like Tolstoy, these were pacifists who opposed the Tsarist regime. I saw Istanbul for the first time then. Welcome back. “About Istanbul,” I said. He has abandoned fiction to agitate for a moralistic Christian life outside of the Russian Orthodox Church. Everyone in the circle wrote well and kept diaries. And now the word ‘beauty’ is not only an aesthetic word but a political word, too. Therefore it's impossible to tell with whom the author's sympathies lay. The book, however, gives us each person's writing, and the result I found to be too fragmented. Surrounded by his children, secretary, hysterical wife, and disciples that idolize him, we catch a glimpse of a very stressful time of the writer's long life. As Parini says himself, this novel sails as close as possible to the shore line of the literal events that made up the last year of Tolstoy's life. Leo Tolstoy was at the end of his life the most famous writer of his time and an extremely rich man. There had been a military coup a couple of years before, in 1980. A like new book with extremely light crease on spine and some minor edge wear. ], Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2010. “The Last Station offers proof that the historical novel has a lot left to say to and about literature. I was 17 years old when I arrived at Haydar Pasha Station in Istanbul. I know very little about the man, his work, or his times so when I saw The Last Station, A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year, I thought I'd give it a try. I saw Istanbul for the first time then. Letters, diaries, manuscripts -- everyone's writing! The Conservative bodies believe in the past. I bought this book after seeing a trailer for the new movie starring Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy in the final year of his life and Helen Mirren as his embattled wife. Rarely does one prefer the movie over the book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
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