Leo Tolstoy 托爾斯泰：War and Peace 《藝術論》"What Is Art?" /The Cossacks. Tolstoy and His Problems

The task for Christian art is to establish brotherly union among men. 

 What Is Art

 TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS., 
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 
AYLMER MAUDE 

 http://archive.org/stream/whatisart00tolsuoft/whatisart00tolsuoft_djvu.txt

 英文本有附錄譯文為此本漢譯所略去

and to-day we are told by many that art has nothing to do with morality — that art should ... I went one day, with a lady artist, to the Bodkin Art Gallery, in Moscow.


   第十卷
    本卷包括根據英國倍因（Robert Nisbet Bain，通譯貝恩）的英譯本Russian Fairy Tales（一八九二年）選譯的《俄羅斯民間故事》，根據培因（即倍因）的英譯本Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-Tales（一八九四年）選譯的《烏克蘭民間故事》，根據英國韋格耳（Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall，通譯韋戈爾）所著傳記Sappho of Lesbos: Her Life and Times （一九三二年）編譯的《希臘女詩人薩波》，英國勞斯（William Henry Denham Rouse）著神話故事《希臘的神與英雄》（Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece，一九三四年），以及“其他英文和世界語譯作”。
    《俄羅斯民間故事》譯於一九五二年五月，一九五二年十一月由香港大公書局出版，署“知堂譯”。一九五七年八月天津人民出版社重印此書，署“周啟明譯”。





A brilliant short novel inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s experience as a soldier in the Caucasus, The Cossacks has all the energy and poetry of youth while also foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy’s later years. His naïve hero, Olenin, is a young nobleman who is disenchanted with his privileged and superficial existence in Moscow and hopes to find a simpler life in a Cossack village. As Olenin foolishly involves himself in their violent clashes with neighboring Chechen tribesmen and falls in love with a local girl, Tolstoy gives us a wider view than Olenin himself ever possesses of the brutal realities of the Cossack way of life and the wild, untamed beauty of the rugged landscape. This novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the Russian frontier—completed in 1862, when the author was in his early thirties—has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fictions of his middle years. Unlike those works, The Cossacks is lean and supple, economical in design and execution. But Tolstoy could never touch a subject without imbuing it with his magnificent many-sidedness, and so this book bears witness to his brilliant historical imagination, his passionately alive spiritual awareness, and his instinctive feeling for every level of human and natural life. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/179295/the-cossacks/