Quote from Tolstoy

[marina brodskaya]

The Cossacks?

"There are here no chestnut steeds, no Cataracts (NB: as in Dniepr Cataracts
-- mb), Amalat-beks, no heroes, and no brigands,"
he thought. "people live here as does Nature; they die, they are born, they
fight, they drink, they eat, they have pleasure, and again they die, and
there are no conditions, except those unchangeable one which Nature has
imposed upon the sun, the grass, the beasts, and the trees. They have no
other laws."







On 10/24/07, oprokop at temple.edu <oprokop at temple.edu> wrote:
>
>    It could be reference to Tolstoy's 1868 notes on
>   War and Peace:
>   "Для историка, в смысле
>   содействия, оказанного
>   лицом
>   какой-нибудь одной цели,
>   есть герои ; для художника, в
>   смысле
>   соответственности этого
>   лица всем сторонам жизни, не
>   может и
>   не должно быть героев , а
>   должны быть люди ."
>
>   ---- Original message ----
>   >Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:59:06 +1300
>   >From: Irene Zohrab <Irene.Zohrab at VUW.AC.NZ>
>   >Subject: [SEELANGS] Quote from Tolstoy
>   >To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
>   >
>   >Dear colleagues,
>   >
>   >I have been asked to provide the exact source for a
>   quote
>   from Tolstoy:
>   >'there are no heroes but only people'.
>   >The quote is cited in an unpublished letter by
>   Katherine
>   Mansfield, the New Zealand-born writer of short
>   stories.
>   >
>   >Dictionaries of quotations mention the quote as
>   coming from
>   Tolstoy, but don't say from where.
>   >Is there a Concordance of Tolstoy's works?
>   >Could some Tolstoy expert kindly help me identify
>   this quote?
>   >
>   >
>   >Irene Zohrab.
>   >Victoria University
>   >
>
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