The representation of death in the work of Tolstói

Author(s)

Luiza Nascimento Almeida

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-03-29

Examining board members

Noe Silva; Denise Regina de Sales; Elena Nikolaevna Vassina

• Advisor: Noe Silva

Abstract

The paper aims to show how the representation of death is done in the work of Lev Tolstoy. There isnt, however, an analysis of all of his work, which would be impossible face to the place settled, but the examination of a sample of three of its canon-narratives related to death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Master and Man and Three Deaths; texts that talk to one another. In this sense, the research also talks about the interrelations between literary creation and death, basing on texts by Mikhail Bakhtin and Maurice Blanchot, and highlights the main events of death in the life of Lev Tolstoy, responsible for defining his dualistic personality, and latter on, lead him to conversion, a process exposed in the fragment Confession. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/06756-4 - THE REPRESENTATION OF DEATH IN TOLSTOYS WORKS
• Grantee: Luiza Nascimento Almeida
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master