Part I: Poetics of Prose: Chapter 6: Tolstoi's Triplets: An Approach to Biography and Creativity.

This article profiles author and philosopher Lev Tolstoi. Tolstoi was a marked example of the type of person who is profoundly conscious of his life. This awareness was manifested in several aspects of his activity. The very pattern of his life path is the simplest and most palpable proof of his self-awareness. Tolstoi attempted to carefully form his life path, yet he was never fully satisfied with any of the roles he imposed on himself. The prominent position of Tolstoi's own biography shows, in purely statistical terms, his sensitivity to his own self. In his fiction of the entire period before the novel War and Peace, he plays in his stories the simultaneous role of protagonist and writer.