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The Living Corpse

Живой труп

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Drama in six acts based on a real court case. Fedya Protasov, unable to make his wife Liza happy or to divorce without lying, fakes his suicide so that she can marry the man she loves; when the deception is discovered and all are charged with bigamy, he kills himself in earnest. Written in 1900, published and staged in 1911.

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  • The Live Corpse

    Project Gutenberg

    Translation: Louise y Aylmer Maude

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Sources

  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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