Three Deaths - Red Cat Classics

Three Deaths - Red Cat Classics Book Description Three different stories written in three years. Three extremely important signals that point to subtle breaks in Tolstoy's oeuvre in terms of his approach in the not too distant future, where he will produce small but great works. The first story, published in 1857, is a Rousseau-like criticism directed at the arrogant society called civilization, through the contempt suffered by a street singer in Lucerne, the distinguished city of Switzerland, where British tourists flock. • “Albertin needs a doctor, not understanding.” This statement of his publisher, the poet Nikolay Nekrasov, who clearly expressed what many people thought after reading the story about society's insensitivity towards a talented musical genius who was addicted to alcohol, would lead to a much deeper rupture than just heartbreak in Tolstoy. • The last story, "Three Deaths", sheds light on a new crisis in minds by juxtaposing three different death experiences. "Who can determine for me what is freedom, what is despotism, what is civilization, what is barbarism? And where is the limit of one from the other? And in whose soul is there an infallible scale to measure these intangibly complex phenomena?" (From the Promotional Bulletin)