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...Benjamin Franklin always preferred "a drop of reason to a flood of words" and filled Poor Richard's Almanac with colonial one-liners: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead"; "The used key is always bright." Emerson thought proverbs "the sanctuary of the intuitions." Tolstoy's knowledge of common tradition led him to an encyclopedia of wisdom. Eastern European sayings have always assumed the clarity and force of vodka: "Where the needle goes, the thread follows"; "The devil pours honey into other men's wives"; "The Russian has three strong principles: perhaps, somehow...
NORMAN MAILER '43 had to write this brick of a book. After all that grand talk and those grandstanding performances in which he told how he could go so many rounds in the rings with the heavyweights--Tolstoy and Hemingway and God knows who else--he was compelled to write a truly big book. Size alone, of course, was not the only requirement, though, to be sure, Mailer had in mind a book that the eye might train on, even on a shelf with Melville, Prost, and Dostoyevsky. No, more than that, the book would have...
...Quixote the novel may be flawed, but Don Quixote the man is permanent. The bony knight and his fat squire, Sancho Panza, are the most recognizable duo in all of fiction. The lecturer traces their "long shadow" through the works of such disparate men as Dickens, Flaubert and Tolstoy. Had he ventured only a little further, he might have found quixotic elements in the books of Saul Bellow, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov...
...prospect, perhaps not even for the Russians. Should they arrive, book lovers among them might experience a sense of déjà vu. From Mexico to the islands of southern Chile and Argentina, there is a burst of literary energy reminiscent of the age of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Great differences exist between the writers of 19th century Russia and 20th century Latin America, but so do profound similarities. Both groups have had to face provincialism, political suppression and foreign influences that threatened to drown out their native voices...
...responsible life in our society." Thus the Redbook authors proposed, for example, that all students take a course called "Great Texts of Literature" in which the books would be selected from a list of "Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy." Reading these authors and learning the "core" of knowledge that was considered the foundation of liberal arts education did not mean that a student would commit to memory a small collection of finely crafted theories that explained away the world. Knowing a "core" of knowledge meant knowing a core...