9 letters found

1. 574 To Willemien van Gogh. Paris, late October 1887.

   in note 19:

   Ljev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A la recherche du bonheur. Traduit et précédé d’une préface par M.E. ...

2. 575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887.

   in note 3:

   See for Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur: letter 574, n. 19.

   in translation:

   ...ith, without delay. I recommend that you read Tolstoy’s Les Légendes Russes, and I’ll also let ...

3. 602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.

   in note 10:

   ...t-il beaucoup de terre pour un homme?’ from Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur is about a man w...

4. 604 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 May 1888.

   in note 8:

   ...n Gogh must be referring to the production of Tolstoy’s La puissance des ténèbres which ran ther...

5. 615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.

   in note 4:

   ...t-il beaucoup de terre pour un homme?’ from Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur: see letter 602,...

6. 677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.

   in note 13:

   ...nce may contain two allusions to book titles: Tolstoy’s La puissance des ténèbres and Zola’s L...

7. 686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.

   in note 10:

   Tolstoy’s Ma religion (1885) is mentioned on p. 438 of this article. Van Gogh writes that Tolstoy i...

   in translation:

   I’m reading an article on Tolstoy in the Revue des Deux Mondes — it appears that Tolstoy takes an...

   There’s said to be a religious book by Tolstoy, I believe it’s called ‘Ma religion’; it must ...

   It seems that in the book Ma religion, Tolstoy suggests that whatever may occur in the way of a viole...

   in note 20:

   ...bove) said of the ‘inner revolution’ that Tolstoy advocated: ‘The transformation of humanity, ...

8. 687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.

   in translation:

   Tolstoy’s book, Ma religion, was published in French as long ago as 1885, but I’ve never seen it ...

   in note 21:

   See letter 686, n. 20, for Tolstoy’s concept of the ‘inner’ revolution.

   in note 20:

   Van Gogh had read about Tolstoy’s My religion in the article ‘Les Réformateurs. Le comte Léon T...

9. 804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.

   in note 15:

   For Tolstoy’s Ma religion, see letter 686, nn. 10 and 20.

   in translation:

   ...erly book. So much the better that you prefer Tolstoy, you who read books above all to derive energi...

   ...th the Russians. Have you read Ma religion by Tolstoy yet – it must be very practical and really u...

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1. Chronology

   in 1887:

   ...d Huysmans. Has just read Maupassant’s Mont Oriol and Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur (574).