Book, Romance of A Pedra do Reino and Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Vol[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Shakespeare and Drama, an essay written between 1903 and 1906, is one of Tolstoy's last texts. In it we find the brilliant Russian novelist confronting the ideas of the brilliant English playwright. In his moral or religious considerations, Tolstoy developed something that Vladimir Nabokov considered a “new religion (...) neutral mixture of Hindu Nirvana with the new Testament, Jesus without the church”. Without a doubt, there are reflections of this thought in Shakespeare and drama. For Aurora Bernardini, who translated and prefaced the book, “naturalness is one of Tolstoy’s great trump cards against Shakespeare”. And the translator adds: “As for his predictions about the main aspects of future art and its effects on the public, they are, today, the complete opposite of what he proposed and, due to a great irony of history, they seem to get closer each time. more and more to those he so punished in Shakespeare's dramas. But we will leave readers the pleasure of discovering the clever arguments of the three works presented here and the pleasure of having fun with Tolstoy's recreations and strangeness.”