BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Tolstoy.
Four Essays on Leo Tolstoy William Gaddis's The Recognitions The Many Lives of James Joyce A Fresh Look at The Man Without Qualities Three Experimental Novels on Music Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp The Novels of John Fowles: A Reassessment The Weirdest 1960s Novel of Them All The Making of Ulysses Buddenbrooks and the Novel of Business William T. Vollmann and the Bumbling.
Tolstoy: What is Art? involuntarily come) not only does not help to make clear in what this particular human activity which we call art really consists, but renders such elucidation quite impossible until we rid ourselves of a conception.
Essay Sample: Biography: Leo Tolstoy was born in Tula Province, Russia, on September 9, 1828. His mother died when he was only two years old. After Tolstoy’s father.
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, better known as Leo Tolstoy, is rightly regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of literature and his masterpieces, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are considered by many to be two of the most important novels ever written. He was born in 1828 in Yasnaya, Polyana, in what was then the Russian Empire, into a noble family with old and established.
Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin’s most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology.
Leo Tolstoy. Leo Nikolaivich Tolstoy was born on August 28, 1828 to Princess Marie Volkonsky and Count Nicolas Tolstoy. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Volkonsky manor house on the road to Kieff in Russia. It was here that he was to spend the majority of his adult life. Leo was the fourth and last son of the family; they also had one.
Essay. Tolstoy's pamphlets are the least-known part of his work, and his attack on Shakespeare (Note, below) is not even an easy document to get hold of, at any rate in an English translation. Perhaps, therefore, it will be useful if I give a summary of the pamphlet before trying to discuss it. (Note: SHAKESPEARE AND THE DRAMA. Written about 1903 as an introduction to another pamphlet.