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Synopsis
Considered by critics as one of Tolstoy's best works, Two Hussars (1856), now translated into Spanish by Olga Korobenko, is a "song" to the shameless and unseemly license of the Russian military aristocracy of the first half of the 19th century. , whose exemplarity was losing strength from generation to generation, getting closer and closer to a decline that lived on the exaltation of inherited medals and the glory of past times.

Count Turbín is a hussar officer who likes women, gambling, drinking and dueling. Although he is carried away by his tastes, he is not a slave to his passions but his master. Endowed with a great sense of humor, sensitivity and humanity, he combines his impetuous and arrogant temperament with the elegance of a dominant and sober character.

A time jump of twenty years. The count is dead. Tolstoy makes his son, also a hussar officer, appear on the scene, who cannot live except under the shadow of his father's strong and imposing personality, like a disinherited Hamlet. Skillfully, the Russian writer manages to build, through a game of mirrors between the personality of the father and that of the son, a story of two lives crossed by the fate of blood affinities and the rational desire to destroy them. All a work of art.