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"'''Diary of a Lunatic'''" (sometimes translated as "Memoirs of a Madman" and "The Diary of a Madman") is a short story by [[Leo Tolstoy]] written in 1884. |
"'''Diary of a Lunatic'''" (sometimes translated as "Memoirs of a Madman" and "The Diary of a Madman") is a short story by [[Leo Tolstoy]] written in 1884. |
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According to literary critic [[Janko Lavrin]], in August, 1869, Tolstoy travelled from [[Nizhny Novgorod]] (AKA: Gorky) to the Penza district and slept overnight in the town of Arzamas. But he couldn't sleep, though, and was overwhelmed with a maddening fear of death.<ref>{{cite book |
According to literary critic [[Janko Lavrin]], in August, 1869, Tolstoy travelled from [[Nizhny Novgorod]] (AKA: Gorky) to the [[Penza Governorate|Penza district]] and slept overnight in the town of [[Arzamas]]. But he couldn't sleep, though, and was overwhelmed with a maddening fear of death.<ref>{{cite book |
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}}</ref> Many years later he recounted this experience in written form, and ''Diary of a Lunatic'' was the result. |
}}</ref> Many years later he recounted this experience in written form, and ''Diary of a Lunatic'' was the result. The title of the story is a reference to [[Nikolai Gogol]]'s story "[[Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol)|Diary of a Madman]]". |
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==Literary analysis== |
==Literary analysis== |
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According to literature professor Inessa Medzhibovskaya, this unfinished work uses an encounter with possible death as a flame to a spiritual awakening, though the conflict remains of misunderstanding between the real world and the spiritual one.<ref>{{cite book |
According to literature professor Inessa Medzhibovskaya, this unfinished work uses an encounter with possible death as a flame to a spiritual awakening, though the conflict remains of misunderstanding between the real world and the spiritual one.<ref>{{cite book |
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}}</ref> According to the editors at the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, this work was an unfinished fragment, a deeply personal, autobiographical or autobiographical-like, first-person narrative whose resolution exists only within [[the Death of Ivan Ilyich]], as Ivan Ilyich is just ''Diary of a Lunatic'' "prefigured in a different form."<ref>{{cite book |
}}</ref> According to the editors at the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, this work was an unfinished fragment, a deeply personal, autobiographical or autobiographical-like, first-person narrative whose resolution exists only within [[the Death of Ivan Ilyich]], as Ivan Ilyich is just ''Diary of a Lunatic'' "prefigured in a different form."<ref>{{cite book |
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}}</ref> According to the [[Cambridge Companions]], this is a work which describes Tolstoy's crises in veiled form.<ref>{{cite book |
}}</ref> According to the [[Cambridge Companions]], this is a work which describes Tolstoy's crises in veiled form.<ref>{{cite book |
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This work is elsewhere very popular in literary analysis in universities, such as with professors and authors Henry W. Pickford at Duke University,<ref>{{cite book |
This work is elsewhere very popular in literary analysis in universities, such as with professors and authors Henry W. Pickford at Duke University,<ref>{{cite book |
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}}</ref> and Ernest J. Simmons at Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia.<ref>{{cite book |
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Latest revision as of 22:10, 3 September 2024
"Diary of a Lunatic" (sometimes translated as "Memoirs of a Madman" and "The Diary of a Madman") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1884.
According to literary critic Janko Lavrin, in August, 1869, Tolstoy travelled from Nizhny Novgorod (AKA: Gorky) to the Penza district and slept overnight in the town of Arzamas. But he couldn't sleep, though, and was overwhelmed with a maddening fear of death.[1] Many years later he recounted this experience in written form, and Diary of a Lunatic was the result. The title of the story is a reference to Nikolai Gogol's story "Diary of a Madman".
Literary analysis
[edit]According to literature professor Inessa Medzhibovskaya, this unfinished work uses an encounter with possible death as a flame to a spiritual awakening, though the conflict remains of misunderstanding between the real world and the spiritual one.[2] According to the editors at the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, this work was an unfinished fragment, a deeply personal, autobiographical or autobiographical-like, first-person narrative whose resolution exists only within the Death of Ivan Ilyich, as Ivan Ilyich is just Diary of a Lunatic "prefigured in a different form."[3] According to the Cambridge Companions, this is a work which describes Tolstoy's crises in veiled form.[4]
This work is elsewhere very popular in literary analysis in universities, such as with professors and authors Henry W. Pickford at Duke University,[5] and Ernest J. Simmons at Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Janko Lavrin (2014). Tolstoy: An Approach Bound with Dostoevsky: A Study. Taylor & Francis. p. 82.
- ^ Inessa Medzhibovskaya (2009). Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time: A Biography of a Long Conversion, 1845-1885. Lexington Books. p. 297.
- ^ The Berkeley Undergraduate Journal. University of California, Berkeley. Undergraduate Programs. 1990.
- ^ Orwin (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Cambridge University Press. p. 173.
- ^ Henry W. Pickford (2015). Thinking with Tolstoy and Wittgenstein: Expression, Emotion, and Art. Northwestern University Press.
- ^ Ernest Joseph Simmons (2014). Tolstoy. Taylor & Francis. p. 151.
External links
[edit]- Original Text
- Diary of a Lunatic, from RevoltLib.com
- Diary of a Lunatic, from Marxists.org
- Diary of a Lunatic, from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
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