Boyhood is Lev Tolstoy's continuation of the autobiographical fiction that begins with Childhood, following young Nikolai Irtenev through memory, embarrassment, moral confusion, family feeling, and early self-awareness. The book studies the small humiliations and discoveries that shape a child moving toward adolescence. Tolstoy treats inward life with unusual seriousness and precision, turning ordinary scenes into moral and psychological evidence.
The work is quieter than the great later novels, but it already shows Tolstoy's gift for psychological truth. He notices vanity, shame, tenderness, imitation, and the fragile desire to become good. The result is a subtle portrait of youth before certainty hardens. Readers interested in coming-of-age fiction, Russian literature, autobiographical novels, childhood memory, moral development, and Tolstoy's early artistic formation will find a sensitive and revealing book.
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