post or contra Tolstoy?

[Gust Olson]

You might try Ted Hughes' poem "Kreutzer Sonata" in dialogue with
Pozdnyshev and Tolstoy.

Gust Olson
Wauwatosa, WI

2007/5/4, Jane Costlow <jcostlow at bates.edu>:
> 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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