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Boyhood

Leo Tolstoy · 1854 CE · Novel · Russian · Victorian

The family leaves the estate for Moscow, and the boy who once watched himself grieve now watches himself resent - his brother's ease, the tutor he can no longer respect, his own face in the glass. A friendship with a prince's son and a season of ostentatious philosophy fill the space where the mother used to be. The middle panel of the trilogy Tolstoy began at twenty-three, and the one where the self-observation turns cold.

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Genre
Coming-of-AgePsychological
Theme
Coming of AgeLoss of InnocenceMemory & TimeClass & InequalityIdentity & Self
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
InnocentMentor
Plot structure
BildungsromanEpisodicConfession
Symbol / motif
The HouseThe CityThe Estate
Conflict
vs Self
Mode / tone
RealistElegiac
Culture / tradition
Russian

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