post or contra Tolstoy?

[Yevgeniy.A.Slivkin-1 at OU.EDU]

Vladimir Sorokin's "The Blue Lard" contains an excellent parody to Tolstoy's scene of a wolf-hunt from "War&Pease". Since Sorokin's novel is about Russian literature this parody could be viewed as a dialogue with Tolstoy.


Yevgeny Slivkin
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
University of Oklahoma 
780 Van Vleet Oval, Room 202
Norman, Oklahoma 73019


----- Original Message -----
From: Gust Olson <gust.olson at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Friday, May 4, 2007 6:46 pm
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] post or contra Tolstoy?
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU


> 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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