post or contra Tolstoy?
George Kalbouss
kalbouss at MAC.COM
Fri May 4 17:23:17 UTC 2007
Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" comes to mind.
And, of course Chekhov's "Lady With a Dog," which our grad students
call "Anna Karenina Lite."
George Kalbouss
The OHio State University
On May 4, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Jane Costlow wrote:
> 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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