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...Masses. The Walker show keeps track of his life since 1915: drawings from a World War I trip to Russia with John Reed; satires on the Versailles Peace Conference; English sketches made while he cartooned for the London Outlook in the early '20s; studies for murals; illustrations for Dostoevski's novels...
...this portrait, Sergei (like other characters in the book) has more of the Russian character as portrayed by Tolstoy and Dostoevski than of that played up by Soviet fiction. Soviet critics explain that Russians have changed, grown cheerful, hygienic, machine-minded, athletic, non-acquisitive. They That Take the Sword suggests that the Russian character survives more stubbornly than any Soviet official confesses...
...resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature. In revealing how the "private" activities of men-their moods, love affairs, desires, plans-are influenced by such remote social and political developments as strikes or the threat of war, Romains has made an impressive and original contribution to modern fiction. And in keeping the first...
Medicine has known about epilepsy from the time of the Babylonians. Julius Caesar suffered from it, as did Napoleon. Dostoevski, an epileptic, unraveled the epileptic's mind and life for literature. But, despite ancient recognition and voluminous analyses of symptoms. Medicine even today knows very little about the causes and treatment of epilepsy...
...plot moves slowly due probably to the difficulty of adapting two of Dostoevski's lesser-known novels into the one film. Egor Efimov is the gifted violinist who will not prostitute his talent to the bourgeois ideas of the patrons of the arts. Although he wins the fiancee of Schultz, his money-grabbing, plagiarizing fellow musician, he ends in poverty, while Schultz cavorts in the salons of Europe. But there is no doubt in the minds of the audience that Egor will find appreciation for his realistic compositions in the revolt of the workingmen. Fortunately there is only one shot...