A History of Yesterday (История вчерашнего дня) is a non-fiction diary entry by Leo Tolstoy[1] written in 1851 and later republished in English in 1928, and then again in 1949, when it was translated by George Kline. It is one of his earliest-written pieces available in English.
According to Salon in 2015, Tolstoy said his choice to write this work was "not because yesterday was extraordinary in any way... but because I have long wished to tell the innermost [zadushevnuiu] side of life in one day. God only knows how many diverse... impressions and thoughts... "[2]
Author A. N. Wilson describes the diary entry as a description of Tolstoy's early indolence, about how he was transformed, about his soirées (parties) at the residence of the Volkonsky's in Moscow, and describes it as a "snapshot of some of the undeveloped elements of his genius before they 'gelled' or came together."[3]
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- Source of text.
- A History of Yesterday, from RevoltLib.com
- A History of Yesterday, from Marxists.org
- A History of Yesterday, from TheAnarchistLibrary.org
References[edit]
- ^ Tolstoy's short fiction : revised translations, backgrounds and sources, criticism. WorldCat. OCLC 223106441.
- ^ Irina Paperno (January 11, 2015). "Leo Tolstoy's theory of everything: Before writing some of the greatest novels in history, Tolstoy asked some of philosophy's hardest questions".
- ^ A. N. Wilson (1988). Tolstoy. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 64. ISBN 9780393321227.
