post or contra Tolstoy?

[michael.pushkin]

Chekhov's 'Skuchnaya istoriya' as a reply to 'Smert' Ivana Il'icha'?

Mike Pushkin
CREES
ERI 
University of Birmingham
UK


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From: "Jane Costlow" <jcostlow at BATES.EDU>
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] post or contra Tolstoy?


> 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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