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Influential American literature critic Harold Bloom said of Hadji Murat: "[it is] my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world." Editions and translations. Over 250 editions of Hadji Murat have been published since 1912.
- Russia
- Leo Tolstoy
- Хаджи-Мурат (Khadzhi-Murat)
- Aylmer Maude (1912)
24 de feb. de 2020 · Hadji Murat, like War and Peace before it, shows the messy truth that lies behind maps and military manoeuvres. It shows the suffering, the heroism, and the dignity of ordinary people. Harold Bloom once called it “the best story in the world” .
8 de jun. de 2011 · Like many readers of Leo Tolstoy’s final work, Hadji Murad, I read the novella based on Harold Bloom’s praise in his work The Western Canon, where he declares it “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best I have ever read.”
Originality and strangeness are for Bloom the chief qualities that make a work canonical. It is on these qualities that he concentrates, but always with an emphasis on literary influence that can only be described as obsessive. For Bloom, the central truth of literary history is that "poems, stories, novels, plays come into being as a response ...
This short novel, published posthumously and recommended by Harold Bloom in his Western Canon, is the writer's fictionalized account of his service in the Russian army in Chechen in the 1850s and of a Chechen soldier, Hadji Murád, who defects to the enemy with tragic results.
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Hadji Murat slaughters Hamzat publicly right in front of all his men, and when surrounded, he jumps fearlessly out of a window; later, we see him jumping off a high cliff, nearly crushing half his body. At such moments, the bravery and energy that define Tolstoy's last hero appear insurmountable. To quote Harold Bloom, "in
Resumen y sinopsis de Hadji Murat de León Tolstói. La novela se abre con un breve preludio en el que, al volver de un paseo, el narrador, con gran dificultad, recoge «un magnífico cardo en flor de la especie que llamamos cardo tártaro». El cardo es ya el implícito emblema de Hadjí Murat: ¡Cuánta energía y vitalidad!
