Childhood, Boyhood, Youth Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by Judson Rosengrant; Judson Rosengrant (Translator)
Get a glimpse of young Tolstoy in this revelatory new translation of his poignant semi-autobiographical trilogy
Leo Tolstoy wrote his first published work, Childhood, when he was only twenty-three years old. A semi-autobiographical novel, it recounts two days in the childhood of ten-year-old Nikolai Irtenev, recreating vivid impressions of people, places, and events with the exuberant perspective of a child and the ironic retrospective understanding of an adult. Boyhood and Youth soon followed, and together they launched Tolstoy on the literary career that would bring him immortality.
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A new, definitive translation of Tolstoy's early autobiographical trilogy
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity. Prizewinning translator Judson Rosengrant has stunningly realized Tolstoy's voice in English prose to make this new Penguin Classics edition of Childhood; Boyhood; Youth the "definitive translation. . . in this generation" (Janet Fitch).
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- Title Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
- Author Leo Tolstoy; Introduction by Judson Rosengrant; Judson Rosengrant (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2012-06-26
- ISBN 9780140449921 / 0140449922
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.92 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 2.34 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Autobiographical fiction, Russia - Social life and customs - 1533-1917
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
—Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
“Judson Rosengrant's stunning new translation of L. Tolstoy's first literary masterpiece reveals the Russian novelist's talent in all its startling and visionary originality. Rosengrant renders the young Tolstoy's complex syntactical architecture, his poetic riffs, and his unconventional yoking of adjectives and nouns with an erudite fidelity and stylistic elegance that make all other translations of this work appear plodding and pedantic by comparison. Rosengrant's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth is an example of the art of translation at its finest, combining critical acumen, a specialist's understanding of Tolstoy's art, and a profound sympathy with the original's subtle narrative 'moods,' shifting melodies of language, and deployment of stylistic registers. Thanks to Rosengrant's passionate respect for the integrity of the text and the power of the precisely chosen word to illuminate experience, Tolstoy has found an English voice worthy of his own.”
—Lena M Lencek, Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College
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