post or contra Tolstoy?

[Jane Costlow]

Colleagues,

   I'm currently teaching a course on late Tolstoy (both fiction and 
essays), and would like to pair some other writers with L.N.'s more 
wonderfully outrageous pieces.  I'd welcome suggestions of short fiction 
that is either directly influenced by Tolstoy (say, Kreutzer Sonata or 
Ivan Ilych), or is written in reaction/opposition to it.  (Suggestions 
that relate more to his non-fiction - we're scheduled to read sections 
of What Then Must We Do? and essays on non-violence - are also 
welcome.)  The writers don't have to be Russian.  (I've received some 
suggestions from the students themselves - so far suggesting Hunter 
Thompson and Edward Abbey after reading "I Cannot be Silent").

Thanks,

Jane Costlow (feel free to respond on- or off-list)

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