post or contra Tolstoy?

[Valentino, Russell]

Speaking of parodies, Dubravka Ugresic, "The Kreutzer Sonata," in her Steffi Speck in the Jaws of Life (along with "A Hot Dog in a Warm Bun," which sends up another famous 19th-c. Russian short story -- you guess).
 
For a shift of medium, you might also try Janacek's String Quartet No. 1 -- The Kreutzer.
 
For more serious fare, try the Tolstoy chapter (Tolstoy and the Nonviolent Imperative) in Steven Marks, How Russia Shaped the Modern World (Princeton, 2003). It's suggestive rather than analytic and casts a wide net.
 
I've used all these in class in the last 2-3 years. They went over well with my students.
 
Russell Valentino
 
>  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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