9 letters found
- 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. ...
- 575 To Emile Bernard. Paris, about December 1887.
- in translation:
...ith, without delay. I recommend that you read Tolstoy’s Les Légendes Russes, and I’ll also let ...
- in note 3:
See for Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur: letter 574, n. 19.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
- in note 20:
...bove) said of the ‘inner revolution’ that Tolstoy advocated: ‘The transformation of humanity, ...
- 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 10:
Tolstoy’s Ma religion (1885) is mentioned on p. 438 of this article. Van Gogh writes that Tolstoy i...
- 687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
- 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...
- in translation:
Tolstoy’s book, Ma religion, was published in French as long ago as 1885, but I’ve never seen it ...
- 804 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 19 September 1889.
- 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...
- in note 15:
For Tolstoy’s Ma religion, see letter 686, nn. 10 and 20.
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- Chronology
- in 1887:
...d Huysmans. Has just read Maupassant’s Mont Oriol and Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur (574).
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29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
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Ljev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Tolstoi) (1828-1910) Russian writer
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