Word: tolstoys
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Weary, tense sailors fresh from battered convoys sat in soft chairs in the well-stocked library overlooking the river, read Gorky, Tolstoy, studied Russian. British airmen pounded out newly learned Russian songs on a piano. In the evening U.S., British and Soviet films were shown, and the Soviet Northern Fleet's song-&-dance team performed to gusty applause. Early and late the restaurant with its brass band was full, its popularity surpassed perhaps only by the rifle range...
...Sound of an American has already stirred up considerable cacophony. The book, a sequence of bedroom scenes staged before and during the fall of France, has been compared to the work of Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Tolstoy. It has also been called clumsily vulgar and inept...
...themselves: frozen Russians hanging grotesquely from a gallows; a roomful of naked children left like animal carcasses in a refrigerator; weeping women combing the piled-up dead as Russian troops hurry through the smoking villages after the enemy; the ruins of three national shrines: the country homes of Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov...
Meanwhile the British radio reports that the Nazis have sacked Gogol's birthplace in Sorotchinsky, Russia (several months ago they were reported to have destroyed Tolstoy's home at Yasnaya Polyana). The house, a Gogol museum for many years, was wrecked, valuable books and statues destroyed. Townspeople who protested were machine-gunned...
...Tolstoy's Andrey pointed to another soldier and replied: "Of the feeling in me, and in him, and in every soldier...