Sur mon père is an intimate French-language memoir by T. L. Sukhotina-Tolstaya, offering a daughter’s view of Leo Tolstoy as both a world-famous writer and a family figure. The book draws on personal recollection to explore Tolstoy’s character, domestic life, moral convictions, and the tensions between his public ideals and private circumstances. Its attention to his final illness and burial makes it especially valuable for readers interested in the human details behind the Tolstoy legend. Rather than a broad literary biography, it presents a close, reflective account shaped by memory and filial perspective, preserving impressions of a major nineteenth-century author through the eyes of someone who knew him within the household.

Log in to favorite or list