Neo-Euro Tolstoy

[Ralph Cleminson]

On Tue, 6 May 1997 Zenon M. Feszczak wrote:
> A quote to be questioned:
>
> "Leo Tolstoy is justifiably famous as perhaps the greatest novelist in the
> history of Western literature."
>
> ("Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology".  George Dickie, Richard Sclafani,
> Ronald Roblin.  2nd Edition.  1989 St. Martin's Press, New York. Intro,
> Part I, p. 7.  Really, it's an excellent anthology, by the way).
>
> Tolstoy seems, to my undoubtedly biased perspective, about as Western as an
> onion (tsybulia) dome.

But both of these are Western - or, to put it another way, they
certainly aren't Chinese.  Messrs. Dickie and Co. are to be
congratulated for realising that Europe doesn't end at Cologne, which
is what you'd think from reading a lot of books on "European"
history/culture/what have you...

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