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À la suite de la rédaction de ses deux romans les plus importants, Guerre et paix et Anna Karénine, l'auteur russe Léon Tolstoï a vécu une crise spirituelle qui l'a amené à dénoncer les privilèges dont jouissait sa classe sociale et les richesses matérielles afférentes, et à accueillir la vie champêtre du paysan. Dans la secte persécutée des Doukhobors, qui rejetaient aussi le militarisme et les rituels...
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The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoy's long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of "how to live a good life" and "what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy?" These questions plagued him his entire life.
The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov,...
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