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Called upon to judge a painful affair bordering on the unspeakable, the Eumenides, guardians of destiny and divine law, delve into a tapestry of moral conflict, where blood calls for blood and the shadows of the past mingle with the aspirations of an unknown future. In...
Into the dark folds of human destiny, Aeschylus, undisputed master of Greek tragedy, leads us through the tormented events of “Libation Bearers,” the second part of the Oresteia. The scene opens on a mystery shrouded in the shadows of the past, where vengeance and...
Agamemnon, ruler of the polis of Argos, on leaving for the Trojan War had no favorable winds, so to propitiate himself to the gods he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia, a maiden of exceptional beauty. The winds then had begun to be propitious and the fleet had been...
More than one hundred years have passed since, in late 1919 - a few months after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles - John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace. The author, who had participated in the negotiations as a British...
Dead Souls tells of the adventures of a small landowner who wanders the Russian province in search of serfs. In order to get rich from land in the governorate, he in fact needs to have a certain number of peasants, which is why he devises the dead souls trick. Leaving...
In an ordinary town in the Russian province, news of an inspector general's visit alarms officials and notables. It will be necessary to conceal the wretchedness of public administration, to make people believe that everything is working perfectly, to prevent...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848: it is a few pages that met with little success initially, but would later be destined to change the world. A text that by the end of the 20th Century was reported to have been published in over two...
Published in France in 1893, The Kingdom of God is within You is the most important of Leo Tolstoy's philosophical-religious works. It is a text that exerted a decisive influence on Gandhi and still holds great interest today, not only because it constitutes a...
In the Russian province, Count Fyodor Turbin, a guard officer, arrives by chance and in the few days he remains in town he rescues another officer who lost at gambling, borrows money from a local but does not return it, and seduces a beautiful young widow. Twenty years...
An officer in the 14th artillery brigade, Tolstoy participated in many actions of the ill-fated Battle of Sevastopol (1854-55), with its appalling waste of men and means, and its tragic conclusion that laid bare the weakness of the Russian monarchy. Wishing to see at...
War and Peace is Tolstoy's best-known work and one of the most widely read and beloved in universal literature. These unforgettable pages tell the story of two families of the Russian aristocracy against the backdrop of patriarchal and peasant Russia devastated by wars...
Tolstoy composes the theme of love and marriage, which then also troubled him in his private life, with a narrative in which the protagonist's bitter voice becomes sharp dramatic representation. Far from being a tragedy of jealousy, The Kreutzer Sonata is the drama of...
Prince Muishkin, the last heir of a noble fallen family, is a man who searches in the depths of his conscience for the essential motives of his way of being, moved by candid faith in human brotherhood and the purpose of doing his duty with honesty and sincerity....
Published between 1852, when the author was twenty-four years old, and 1854, this trilogy (Childhood-Boyhood-Youth) is inspired by the themes of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an author whom Tolstoy idolized as a boy. These three books already introduce the main features of...
Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Nekhludoff recognizes in a prostitute accused of murder the peasant woman Katusha Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years earlier, causing her ruin. As the prince faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up...
In the form of a monologue-confession, Notes from Underground” is the story of a prostitute's failed redemption and, at the same time, a tormented investigation into the unconscious - the “underground” - and the impossibility of fully understanding one's own essence and...
Set in the appropriately named Roulettenburg, a German spa with a casino and an international clientele, The Gambler tells the story of the gambling episodes, tangled love affairs, and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler, Polina Alexandrovna, the...
Torn between the love for her son, the bond of marriage and her passion for another man, Anna Karenina will be engulfed in a conflict so dramatic that it transcends the boundaries of the character to become emblematic, one that will unite her with other tormented...
When this novel was published, Fyodor Dostoevsky was twenty-four years old; it was an overwhelming success: critics immediately agreed that its author was a genius, a genius, however, who lived in the deepest misery, that hopeless misery that inspires, precisely, “Poor...
Between 1850 and 1854 Dostoevsky, imprisoned in the fortress of Omsk, Siberia, served a sentence for political reasons. The four years he spent there, re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. The narrating character is a former uxoricide...
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