What is his best short fiction story or novella? For me it's

Hadji Murad

God Sees the Truth, But Waits

Hadji is fantastic (as are all the shorts) but I choose The Cossacks.

Master and man is unforgettable. How much land does a man need is comfy.

>>9428806

Honestly for me Master and Man felt like a fusion of Death of Ivan Ilyich and Kholstomer, in a way. I had read it only after those two works so perhaps my view on it is skewed slightly, I don't remember when the three were written chronologically.

>>9428590
Forged Coupon is my favorite. Also really enjoyed Master and Man, Sevastopol Sketches, Hadji Murad, and Father Sergius

I read the death of Ivan illyich and wasn't all too impressed. Well written but rather uninspiring...

I'm reading 'confession' now and am enjoying it much more.

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>>9428590
I don't know man

But Raping A Slave is his best song

>>9430904
I like most everything by him smaller than Family Happiness, but likewise never really understood the buzz about Ivan Illyich until concluding that it was probably the one book by T most had ever read. Sad, but what else explains this?

>>9430904
>>9431377

Neither of you find the scene of his funeral gutwrenchingly terrifying? He died and people were more than happy to exist without him. That's such a universal fear. Or the final scene with his son, with him wrestling in the black womb, and ultimately coming to terms with life just before he dies? Nothing?

I mean, if you don't like it you don't like it, but personally I think its better than either of you let on.

>>9430984

You did it, Rapeposter. Good job.

Also Swans are dope.

Hadji Murat is fantastic, might be my favourite piece of short fiction.

>>9430984
hey, it's someone who isn't me that's carrying on the truth about Tolstoy

The Trial

>>9431667
I don't think it's a question of not liking it, but rather of its presumed supreme place atop whatever else Tolstoy wrote in volume less than Family Happiness..

> liking his post-Arzamas-horror sermon stories for kids