Word: tolstoy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dostoyevsky thought him a haughty poseur; the Goncourt brothers found him an amiable giant. He wrangled with Tolstoy, befriended Zola, intrigued Carlyle, enchanted Henry James. He was at once a hunter of game and celebrity, a well-traveled man of letters, and a provincial Russian. Ivan Turgenev's life is several lives, and by now several biographies should have recounted them. Yet, as Critic V.S. Pritchett notes, there has not been a definitive biography of Turgenev in any language...
...literary Establishment has never considered Anthony Trollope a great novelist, like such near contemporaries as Tolstoy, Flaubert or Balzac. Noted at least partly for his prodigious output -47 novels, five travel books, and innumerable articles-he has never been ranked higher than third or fourth among his peers in Victorian England, after Dickens, George Eliot and probably Thackeray. Readers, however, have been kinder, and Trollope has always enjoyed an enthusiastic following. During World War II, for example, he ranked first in the esteem of English readers, and Londoners took him down to the Tubes to help them forget the German...
Trollope has always had a distinguished following. Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed that he would rather write like Trollope than like Hawthorne. Trollope's novels, he said, "precisely suit my taste, solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale." Tolstoy said that "Trollope kills me, kills me with his excellence." A newer fan was an American Senator by the name of John Kennedy, who was seen reading The American Senator after he won the Democratic nomination in 1960. Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan always kept a Trollope novel on his night table...
...enthusiasts of everything Russian from Tolstoy to dasha in Georgia, the Kirkland House Music Society is presenting Russian Concertos in Sanders Theatre. Gerald Moshell will conduct the Kirklandgrad Philharmonic in a programme consisting of works by Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 2) featuring Lydia Artymiw as solo pianist and Stravinsky (Violin Concerto) with violinist Lynn Chang, Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" and Stravinsky's ""Dylan Thomas in Memoriam" will also be presented here at Kirkland House JCR at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $1 at the door...
...curtain goes up. Like a commanding general surveying a battle from his horse atop a hill, the Narrator is both involved with and separated from the action. Consistently drawing the lessons to be learned from the playing out of the scenes, the Narrator is the omniscient, controlling eye Tolstoy wished to, but knew he could...