Power of the child

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Lev Tolstoy in 1908

Power of the Child ( Russian Сила детства , Sila detstwa ) is a short story by Lev Tolstoy , which was written on April 19, 1908 and appeared in Tolstoy's Krug Tschtenija 1912 in vol. 3 posthumously in Moscow . In 1983 the text in Vol. 14 Powesti and Tales of the 22-volume Tolstoy edition was published by Verlag für Künstlerische Literatur in Moscow.

The episode was based on Victor Hugo's poem Guerre civile from 1877.

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Tolstoy's massive lecture almost reaches biblical dimensions after just a few pages of text . Civil war in the city: The citizens killed by the military the day before are still lying in the streets and squares. The angry crowd leads a proud policeman, who knows no pity, tied up on the market square. He is supposed to be judged there by the citizens because he recently shot at people. Shortly before the goal of the horrific retribution smarsches, the six-year-old son of the tied man, a half-orphan, intervenes. The father wants to send the little one to a friend. The child cannot be turned away. One of the crowd unties the policeman. The crowd gives way. The policeman runs away sobbing unhindered.

Used edition

  • Power of the child. Translated from the Russian by Hermann Asemissen . P. 369–372 in: Eberhard Dieckmann (Ed.): Lew Tolstoi. Haji Murat. Late narratives . Vol. 13 by Eberhard Dieckmann (ed.), Gerhard Dudek (ed.): Lew Tolstoi. Collected works in twenty volumes . Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1986

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  1. ↑ The reader thinks about the Paris Communards .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ru: Круг чтения, reading circle
  2. ↑ Guerre civile
  3. ^ French Guerre civile, civil war