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...Tolstoy's Way of No Flesh: Abstinence, Vegetarianism, and Christian Physiology. Ronald LeBlanc, Department of German and Russian, University of New Hampshire, and fellow, Russian Research Center. Coolidge Hall, Room 215, 1737 Cambridge...
...English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir. Even today, concerned that he may never see his parents in Vietnam, he writes, "I sat on the hill, surrounded by trees in their spring blossom, looking over the pond at Bennington College, listening ((to a lecture)) on Tolstoy's great novel War and Peace. I felt like one of the characters...
Bloom does not really expect his Common Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers...
...with that pesky, overbearing Shakespeare, particularly when Harold Bloom is ready with shorthand answers in The Western Canon. Why then, in this distraction-besotted time, read demanding, imaginative literature at all? On this topic, Bloom is uncharacteristically tentative. "Reading the very best writers -- let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy -- is not going to make us better citizens." And: "The study of literature, however it is conducted, will not save any individual, any more than it will improve any society." While discarding these schoolmarmish fallacies, Bloom's Common Readers are also advised to forget about picking up literature for enjoyment...
...editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker that "my heart sank when I heard that Bellow once asked, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans...