Leo Tolstoy's urban anthropology
Journal: PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA (University of Silesia)
Year: 2016

The article tackles the issue of Leo Tolstoy's attitude towards the city, perceivedas a sui generis organised space affecting behaviour of human beings. It analyses the literaryworks by the author of Anna Karenina, which either conjure up urban images or set their scenes in cities. Literary evocations are confronted with Tolstoy's non-fictional works and his own view on cities. The images of cities in Tolstoy are read by means of the apparatus typical of urban semiotics, developed mostly in the