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...drawings, all done with a swinging and resonant network of strokes, were portraits of some of the chief figures of Russia's pre-Revolution Parnassus-Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy-all close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing...
...crippling tameness is more complex than his frequently cited refusal to write about sex (no American could write about sex in those days of rump-hump squeam-ishness). Howells simply could not write, and preferred not to think, about the darker sides of human nature. Much as he admired Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the realities they wrote of were to him merely Russian realities; it would be impossible to write a Russian novel in the U.S., he wrote, because here life took on a more "smiling aspect." Biographer Edwin H. Cady presents evidence that the peculiar blindness of this reticent realist...
...wells went on writing his pale, successful novels and his unsuccessful plays (although George Bernard Shaw saw promise in them), urged people to read Zola and Tolstoy, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane, and wrote an appreciation of Mark Twain that is a good deal better than the piece Twain wrote about him. At the end, when the bright young men he had encouraged had gone far beyond him. he endured patiently the cutting down of his statues. But his eclipse was only temporary. Eventually he came to be acknowledged a great man of letters, if not a great author...
HOBART & WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy, daughter of Leo L.H.D...
...Sadoveanu's work is not so much the product of a different political system as of a different century. His real contemporaries are not Ehrenburg and Pasternak but Tolstoy and Turgenev, al though he has nothing like the power or skill of any of them. His customary setting is the Rumania of three generations past, a Ruritanian rural province of marshes and forests and rivers aswarm with ducks to be shot, trout to be caught, and canny peasants to be put upon by the local landowners (known as boyars...