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...PAST DECADE and a half has not been distinguished by pioneer literary criticism, it was certainly an age of great literary biographies. A few primary examples come to mind: Richard Elimann's biography of James Joyce (1959). W.J. Bate's of John Keats (1963), Henri Troyat's of Tolstoy (1967) and Leon Edel's of Henry James of which the final volume appeared early in 1972. All are definitive studies and brilliant. Quentin Bell's new biography of the British feminist critic and novelist. Virginia Woolf, while lacking the voluminous scope of some recent works because it intentionally avoids...
Playhouse New York. Harry Andrews as the dying Tolstoy in James Forsyth's "The Last Journey." CH. 2. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...agencies that specialize in resettling East European refugees-the American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees and the Tolstoy Foundation-are each placing 100 Ugandans. The other 800 are equally divided among the United States Catholic Conference, the Lutheran Council, the Church World Service, United HIAS Service (Jewish) and the International Rescue Committee...
...enduring literary parlor games is listing the immortal losers of the Nobel Prize: Tolstoy, Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Rilke are but a few. Despite the vagaries of the judging, the award remains by far the most coveted prize for writers, partly because it is a huge windfall ($98,100). There are always famous bridesmaids waiting for the big green bouquet. At present they include Vladimir Nabokov, the finest novelist alive; Norman Mailer, the most protean writer; and poets like W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell...
...Barbara are among the choicest products of these years. At their dashing best, the letters read like mini-prefaces to the plays, minor skirmishes in the battle against the bourgeois that was the avowed essence of Shaw's art. Shaw laid down doctrine to his correspondents-who included Tolstoy, Strindberg and Mark Twain-like an Irish pope with a megaphone...