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7/26/12: Yes, yes, Tolstoy and more Tolstoy. Never enough Tolstoy. More soon to come at thewryterreviews.wordpress.com.
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'The Ant-Brotherhood was revealed to us but not the chief secret - the way for all men to cease suffering any misfortune, to leave off quarrelling and being angry, and become continuously happy - this secret he said he had written on a green stick buried by the road at the edge of a certain ravine, at which spot (since my body must be buried somewhere) I have asked to be buried in memory of Nikolenka.'And buried there he was. Maude's Life of Tolstoy impeccably encompasses a life; not just the ev...
This book annoyed me for a while. Maude is not just writing about Tolstoy's life, he is telling us how he believes Tolstoy got things wrong and gives his own opinions in some detail. However I kept on with it and in time this did not bother me so much. I can't say that I agree totally with Tolstoy myself, nor Maude for that matter. In time I became quite fascinated with the life that Tolstoy led and by time I'd finished the 900+ pages, I have to say that I greatly admire Tolstoy. Whether I agree...
This is one of the few books which I must think of almost every week. It is a life-changing masterpiece.
An excellent two-part biography of Tolstoy's life by an admirer, follower, and translator of his, Aylmer Maude. I very much appreciate his and his wife Lise's translations of Tolstoy's novels. Aylmer here presents a sympathetic and highly detailed examination of the artist's life and artistic career without avoiding raising important questions about the count's late dogmatic theory of non-resistance, together with his dubious relationship with Vladimir Chertkov, a Tsarist spy. To his credit, Mau...
