Childhood. Adolescence. Youth

In 1852, in the magazine "Contempor", the story of Tolstoy "Childhood" comes out, which, together with the leaders" adolescence and "youth", subsequently amounted to the trilogy. The literary debut immediately brings the author"s real confession. True, in the magazine the story was published under the title "History of my childhood", than Tolstoy was outraged: Who cares to the history of my childhood? .. Relying on family memories, calling many prototypes of their characters, Tolstoy writes not yet autobiography and Not memoirs. It is interested in the universals of human life, but the universal one could find only looking into themselves. "Childhood", "Defense", "Youth" - the works are more avopsychological, rather than autobiographical "(L.Ya.Ginzburg) The Avtopsychological Trilogy has become not only a piggy bank of future literary designs, but once and forever open continent on the Tolstovsky World Map