Hadji Murad A Short Story Full of Interesting Adventures, by the Great Russian Author Leo Tolstoy

✆A translated and revised work IDEAL FOR LOVERS OF A GOOD READ → Quality works to enjoy on your kindle. The novel opens with a brief prelude in which, on returning from a walk, the narrator, with great difficulty, picks up "a magnificent flowering thistle of the species we call the Tartar thistle." The thistle is already the implicit emblem ofHadji Murat: How much energy and vitality! With what tenacity he defended his life and how expensive he sold it! Hadji Murat is the greatest exception of the late Tolstoy, for there the old shaman rivals Shakespeare. Shakespeare's extraordinary ability to endow even the most minor characters with an exuberant existence, when it comes to filling them with life, is cleverly absorbed by Tolstoy. All the world inHadji MuratHe has a vivid individuality: Shamil, Tsar Nicholas, Avdéiev, the unfortunate Russian soldier killed in a skirmish, Prince Vorontsov, to whom Hadji Murat surrenders himself; Poltoratski, commander of a company. The catalog seems endless, as in the major works of Shakespeare. How can fiction be supernatural and natural at the same time? I suppose it could be argued that in the most supreme fictions these contradictory attributes merge. But there are not many short novels capable of reconciling puzzling antinomies. Hadjí Murat is as strange as the Odyssey and as familiar as Hemingway. Although Hadjí Murat also lives and dies as an archaic epic hero, he brings together in himself all the virtues and none of the defects of Odysseus, Achilles and Aeneas.Harold bloom, The western canon About the Author: Liev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is considered, along with Dostoevsky, the most important Russian writer of the second half of the 19th century. A member of a family of the old nobility, his childhood and adolescence were spent between Moscow, the great family estate of Yásnaia Poliana and Kazan, in whose university he enrolled in 1844. He participated in the war in the Caucasus and was an artillery officer.