The Port (short story)

Short story by Leo Tolstoy

"The Port" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant written in 1889 and translated by Leo Tolstoy into Russian in 1891 as Françoise: A Story After Maupassant ("Франсуаза").[1] Other works by Maupaussant translated by Tolstoy include Too Dear!, which is often included in the popular collection of Tolstoy's work Twenty Three Tales.

According to Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, a scholar at New York University Press, it is a story about man who is talking to a prostitute whom he realizes is his sister.[2] In 1894, about three years after translated this piece, Tolstoy commented that Maupassant was a powerful but immoral genius.[3] Tolstoy is not known much for his translations, but according to the editors at Slavic Review, this was a period in Russian literary history where Russian masters translated foreign works into native Russian.[4] Of course, Tolstoy's translation added some variations, particularly on the part of the character Duclos and how he interacted with the sailors.[5]

Aylmer Maude, the famous translator of Tolstoy's works, disagrees with modern scholars about the original title by Guy de Maupassant, suggesting the original title was actually Notre Dame de Vents ("Our Lady of the Winds").[6]

## See also

[edit]

* Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Slavic Review, ed. (1995). Slavic Review. Vol. 54\. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. p. 686.
2. ^ Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (1998). Tolstoy on the Couch: Misogyny, Masochism and the Absent Mother. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 216.
3. ^ Horst S. Daemmrich, Frank Trommler (1995). Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich. Rodopi. p. 148.
4. ^ Maurice Friedberg (2010). Literary Translation in Russia: A Cultural History. Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 38.
5. ^ Anne Ellen Hruska (2001). Infected Families: Belonging and Exclusion in the Works of Leo Tolstoy. University of California, Berkeley. p. 186.
6. ^ Aylmer Maude (1910). The Life of Tolstoy. Vol. 2\. p. 453.

## External links

[edit]

* An omnibus collection of Maupassant's short fiction at Standard Ebooks
* Original Text of Tolstoy's Variation
* Françoise, from RevoltLib.com
* Françoise, from Marxists.org

* v
* t
* e

Leo Tolstoy

* Bibliography

Novels|

* Childhood (1852)
* Boyhood (1854)
* Youth (1856)
* The Cossacks (1863)
* War and Peace (1869)
* Anna Karenina (1878)
* Resurrection (1899)
* Hadji Murat (1912)

Novellas|

* A Landowner's Morning (1856)
* Two Hussars (1856)
* Family Happiness (1859)
* Polikúshka (1860)
* The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
* Walk in the Light While There is Light (1888)
* The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
* The Devil (1889)
* Master and Man (1895)
* Father Sergius (1898)
* The Forged Coupon (1904)

Short stories|

* "The Raid" (1852)
* "The Cutting of the Forest" (1855)
* "Sevastopol Sketches" (1855)
* "Recollections of a Billiard-marker" (1855)
* "The Snowstorm" (1856)
* "Lucerne" (1857)
* "Albert" (1858)
* "Three Deaths" (1859)
* "The Porcelain Doll" (1863)
* "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" (1872)
* "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1872)
* "The Bear Hunt" (1872)
* "What Men Live By" (1881)
* "Diary of a Lunatic" (1884)
* "Quench the Spark" (1885)
* "An Old Acquaintance" (1885)
* "Where Love Is, God Is" (1885)
* "Ivan the Fool" (1885)
* "Evil Allures, But Good Endures" (1885)
* "Wisdom of Children" (1885)
* "The Three Hermits" (1886)
* "Promoting a Devil" (1886)
* "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
* "The Grain" (1886)
* "Repentance" (1886)
* "Croesus and Fate" (1886)
* "Kholstomer" (1886)
* "The Two Brothers and the Gold" (1886)
* "A Lost Opportunity" (1889)
* "A Dialogue Among Clever People" (1892)
* "The Coffee-House of Surat" (1893)
* "The Young Tsar" (1894)
* "Too Dear!" (1897)
* "Work, Death, and Sickness" (1903)
* "Three Questions" (1903)
* "Alyosha the Pot" (1905)
* "After the Ball" (1911)

Plays|

* The Power of Darkness (1886)
* The First Distiller (1886)
* The Light Shines in the Darkness (1890)
* The Fruits of Enlightenment (1891)
* The Living Corpse (1900)
* The Cause of It All (1910)

Non-fiction|

* A History of Yesterday (1851)
* Confession (1882)
* The Gospel in Brief (1883)
* What I Believe (1884)
* What Is to Be Done? (1886)
* The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894)
* What Is Art? (1897)
* "A Letter to a Hindu" (1908)
* The Inevitable Revolution (1909)
* A Calendar of Wisdom (1910)

Unfinished|

* The Decembrists (1884)
* "Posthumous Notes of the Hermit Fëdor Kuzmich" (1905)

Family|

* Sophia (wife)
* Alexandra (daughter)
* Ilya (son)
* Lev Lvovich (son)
* Tatyana (daughter)

Life and legacy|

* Yasnaya Polyana
* Tolstoyan movement
* Christian anarchism
* Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912 film)
* Lev Tolstoy and the Russia of Nicholas II (1928 documentary)
* Lev Tolstoy (1984 film)
* The Last Station (1990 novel)
* 2009 film)
* Story of One Appointment (2018 film)
* A Couple (2022 film)

Honors|

* Tolstoy Farm
* Tolstoj quadrangle
* crater

Related|

* The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism (1888)
* Vladimir Chertkov
* Aylmer and Louise Maude
* Translators of Tolstoy
* Tolstoy scholars

* Category

This article about a short story (or stories) published in the 1890s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template