post or contra Tolstoy?

[Jane Costlow]

Michael,

Thanks for these suggestions - very helpful.  My posting has turned up 
lots of interesting responses, some of which I'd thought about, but many 
were unexpected.  Much of this will have to wait for the next iteration 
of the course.  Thanks in particular for the tip on the TSJ interview 
with Paul Schick - my students are watching that film next week in 
connection with the story.

Best,

Jane

Michael Denner wrote:
> Jane,
>
> They are legion. 
>
> There are many starting places, but I can recommend Peter Ulf Moller's
> really excellent historical investigation, _Postlude to the Kreutzer
> Sonata_, which follows the reverberations and counterpoints to that
> piece in Russia, China, Japan, USA, etc. 
>
> The Tolstoy Studies Journal in the last issue had an article by Ron
> LeBlanc: "Saninism Versus Tolstoyism: The Anti-Tolstoy Subtext in M.
> Artsybashev's _Sanin_." That issue also had an interview with filmmaker
> Paul Schick on his really excellent short film "Alyosha the Pot." The
> previous (2005) issue had an article by Barbara Henry on Gordin's play,
> _Di Kreytser Sonata_, his "response" to Tolstoy's novella. 
>
> A quick flip through past issues of the Journal will surely turn out
> dozens more examples. 
>
> If you're feeling multi-media friendly, you could also poke through a
> filmography I put together a few years ago of films based on LNT's
> works:
> http://www.utoronto.ca/tolstoy/filmography/filmography.htm
>
> One final suggestions: Chekhov's only novel, _The Duel_, is perhaps more
> Tolstoyan than Tolstoy (well, a certain bent in the late Tolstoy, at
> least). It was written in direct response to Tolstoy, I think, and
> certainly under his (indirect and problematic) tutelage. It is,
> furthermore, my favorite piece of Russian fiction.
>
> ~mad
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jane Costlow
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:11 PM
> To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
> 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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