post or contra Tolstoy?

[George Kalbouss]

Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" comes to mind.
And, of course Chekhov's "Lady With a Dog," which our grad students
call "Anna Karenina Lite."

George Kalbouss
The OHio State University
On May 4, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Jane Costlow wrote:

> 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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