{"id":750,"date":"2011-07-23T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T12:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=750"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:08:16","slug":"leo-tolstoy-hadji-murad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/07\/23\/leo-tolstoy-hadji-murad\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Tolstoy. Hadji Murad."},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Tolstoy.\u00a0Hadji Murad<\/em>. 1911.<\/p>\n

September 30, 2009<\/p>\n

\"Lev<\/a>

Lev Tolstoy’s Favorite Bench<\/p><\/div>\n

I recently downloaded and read from Google Books Tolstoy\u2019s novella\u00a0Hadji Murad<\/em>. It\u2019s one of the very last pieces of fiction he wrote, finishing it in 1904, published in 1911, the year of his death. The short novel, about 200 pages on an ereader, has always been praised as an exquisitely crafted work of art. Tolstoy allows the structure and interplay of events to speak for themselves, eschewing nearly all temptation to explain to the reader his intentions and meaning. For precisely this reason, the book may be an especially challenging one. Before stating what I think of\u00a0Hadji Murad<\/em>, I must touch on my very long relationship with Tolstoy….<\/p>\n

Now available in<\/p>\n

The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em>
\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolstoy allows the tragedy of Hadji Murad to resonate with the accents of art and vision, challenging the reader to understand. It seems to me, though, that few have understood. For instance, Harold Bloom’s discussion of Hadji Murad overemphasizes the tragedy while neglecting the Islamic, Sufi resonance. Perhaps we have a larger context today in which we can begin to perceive the profundity of Tolstoy\u2019s art, what with the collapse of Utopia in Power and the terrorism of 9\/11. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,200],"tags":[496,497,259,494,305,101,484,95,152,495],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ereading","category-book","tag-caucasus","tag-crimea","tag-ebooks-2","tag-epub","tag-google-books","tag-hadji-murad","tag-harold-bloom","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-tolstoy","tag-what-is-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}