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...instance, the publicity surrounding “The Last Station,” a film about Leo Tolstoy??s final days and his relationship with his wife Sofya (played by Helen Mirren) strongly evokes that of “The Queen,” the 2006 drama that also stars Mirren and also focuses on a short period in the life of an aging historical figure. I’m betting “The Last Station” will have a similar cinematic life trajectory as “The Queen,” which was nominated...
...just where his language begins to break down. The thrill of the Nabokovian sentence lies in its intense compression, that hyper-compacted poetry of the apposite adjective or unexpected metaphor that separates it from the more loosely polemical Russian literary tradition. It’s why Nabokov adored Tolstoy??s taut prose and thought Dostoevsky a hack. In “Laura” this compression unravels—degenerating near the end into mere personal notes (“invent tradename, e.g. cephalopium”) and haphazard lists (drawing linkages between self-dissolution and Buddhism...
...important book of this decade or any other decade. Suspense builds when President Bush makes an appearance at one point, assembling a jigsaw puzzle of the White House. It’s a metaphor.What Happened to Anna K.By Irina ReynThis book is a glorified cliff notes penned on Leo Tolstoy??s seminal “Anna Karenina.” Here’s what you need to know. Anna was a cheating whore and an opium addict. She abandoned her children, her husband and her class, and killed herself. Pretty bleak, right? I think there were some...
...classic just because it has an interesting story line, or else Stephen King would be on the AP English syllabus. Rather, a work is considered “good” because it points to something deeper, in society or in ourselves, beyond the realm of ordinary human experience. Tolstoy??s genius was to take something as banal as Anna’s infidelity and give it a darker psychological twist...
...curriculum. A simple search for the keyword “war” on Harvard’s online course catalog returns 131 results. Some of them won’t be what you’re after, such as Freshman Seminar 37p, “Reading Tolstoy??s War and Peace.” But there is Government 1730, “War and Politics.” Continue browsing and you’ll find Government 90sp, “The Future of War”; Historical Study A-12, “Conflict and Cooperation...