One of this author's characters stops himself from sleeping with a divorcee by cutting off his own finger and reaffirming his desire to be a monk.
One of this author's characters stops himself from sleeping with a divorcee by cutting off his own finger and reaffirming his desire to be a monk. A second-person description of a military hospital and a story whose "only hero is truth," set in December and May respectively, are two parts of another of this man's works. This author of "Father Sergius" and the (*) Sevastopol Sketches wrote a novella whose protagonist wonders "What if my whole life has been wrong?" while observing his servant Gerasim, after which he spends three days screaming before "some force" strikes him and he succumbs to his injuries from a curtain-hanging mishap. For 10 points, name this author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a Russian who also wrote War and Peace.
One of this author's characters stops himself from sleeping with a divorcee by cutting off his own finger and reaffirming his desire to be a monk.
Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy]