The Gospel in Brief - Couverture rigide

Tolstoy, Leo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1907661182 ISBN 13 : 9781907661181

Editeur : White Crow Books, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Tolstoy Leo

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Dustin Condren captures, in this fresh idiomatic translation, the dazzlingly audacious achievement of The Gospel in Brief, Tolstoy’s daring synthesis the New Testament accounts of Jesus.” (Edward E. Ericson, Jr., editor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader)

“A fascinating and thoroughly unorthodox rewriting of the Gospels and restatement of Christianity.” (Booklist)

“This is the first English translation in more than a century; Condren worked from Tolstoy’s original version and restored material deleted in previous translations. The result is not unlike Hermann Hesse’s ‘Siddhartha’ — the story of a life that illustrates a path.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Newly translated by Dustin Condren, Tolstoy’s Gospel in Brief offers us a Jesus stripped of the overlay of Christian dogma and ancient metaphysics: his Jesus confronts readers with a real challenge and a call to change their lives.” (George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, and canon of Christ Church Cathedral)

“The Gospel in Brief lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy’s thinking about the meaning of life. ... Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. ... Although little known, this book remains hugely important.” (Jay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year)

“A fresh translation destined to introduce a new generation to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy’s mind.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Quatrième de couverture :

The most celebrated novelist of all time retells "the greatest story ever told," integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable The Gospel in Brief—virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren—makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. "If you are not acquainted with The Gospel in Brief," wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, "then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: White Crow Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1907661182
• ISBN 13: 9781907661181
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 148