Abstract
The project's intent is to present an unique study on the representation of the natural man--embodied in Tolstoy's oeuvre in the peasant, the Gypsy, the Cossack, among others--from the analysis of "Cossacks-A Tale of the Caucasus" (1852). In that way, we intend to display the paths taken by the author to compose his canon character: a face of what was most dense in his soul and the genesi…