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...Peace. The BBC adaptation of Tolstoy, for those who missed it in the fall. Tonight, the first of nine parts. (Part one will be repeated Tuesday at 9 p.m.) Ch. 44, 7:30 p.m. 2 hours...
Blake has been a serious student of Russian literature since, at the age of 14, she got hooked on Leo Tolstoy. She was a senior fellow at Columbia University's Russian Institute, has edited four collections of modern Russian literature in translation and visited the BETTY STATLER U.S.S.R. three times as a LIFE correspondent; she joined TIME in 1968 as consultant on the Soviet Union and East Europe...
...more cogent criticism of Beethoven is that, at least in his late works, his art is elite, accessible only to a few, and therefore that it helps maintain divisions within society. Late in his life, Leo Tolstoy wrote that "great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone." He condemned Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (though not his Fifth) because he felt it was exclusive. Tolstoy thought it would bring those people "specially trained to submit themselves to its complex hypnotism" together and divide them from the rest of mankind. In Tolstoy...
...There is a difference of type: Dostoevsky was a rough writer, who often scrawled or dictated under the burden of absurd deadlines, and Nabokov is a careful, multiple re-writer. Nabokov's condemnation must also be seen as the answer to a question forced especially on any Russian writer: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. It is a question of native sensibility...
...Peace. A nine-chapter BBC adaptation of Tolstoy's massive novel that runs a total of 14 and a half hours. Part one introduces the lengthy list of characters while war with Napoleon brews offstage. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...