Childhood, boyhood, adolescence
The trilogy Childhood, Knabenjahre, Jünglingsjahre (also childhood, boyhood, youth ; childhood, boyhood, youth ; childhood and youth ) is a short story by Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy , written from 1851 to 1857 . All three parts were published individually in the literary magazine Sowremennik ( Russian Современник; translated as: The contemporary ).
Written in the first person perspective (1st person singular), the work, which can be assigned to the genre of autobiography , tells the childhood and youth of Nikolai Petrovich Irtenev, a boy from a Russian aristocratic family . Tolstoy merges autobiographical and fictional stories.
The Russian social critic Dmitri Ivanovich Pissarew had developed an entire theory of education based mainly on Tolstoy's observations, which are recorded in the trilogy .
expenditure
- Childhood, boyhood, youth ; translated by Eva Luther, Diogenes Verlag , ISBN 3257213573
- Childhood and youth , translated by Karl Bannwitz, Artemis & Winkler Verlag, ISBN 3538063508
Web links
- Chapter first fruits in Löwenstein's biography of Tolstoy