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The Power of Darkness

Власть тьмы, или Коготок увяз, всей птичке пропасть

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Peasant drama in five acts based on a real criminal case in Tula province. The labourer Nikita, seduced by his master's wife, is dragged from crime to crime — poisoning, adultery, infanticide — until he confesses publicly. Its subtitle is a proverb: "If a claw is caught, the bird is lost". Banned in Russia until 1895, it premiered at the Théâtre Libre in Paris in 1888.

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  • The Power of Darkness

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de 1914)

    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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