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...write well about death is never easy and always dangerous. Words tend to become solemn; compassion blends with sentimental pity; and the reader may easily find himself stirred by nothing stronger than acute discomfort. Tolstoy managed superbly in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Flaubert in Madame Bovary. This first novel challenges neither of the masters but shows that modesty and sympathy can be enough to make a death seem both dignified and touching...
...stepped forward was Kornei Chukovsky, 78, in his time the friend of Anton Chekov and Maxim Gorky. After recalling his long friendship with Pasternak, Chukovsky gingerly approached the crucial question: Pasternak's quarrel with the Communist Party. It resulted, said Chukovsky, from Pasternak's sharing Leo Tolstoy's pacifism and his refusal to "condone the resistance to evil by violence." In this Pasternak erred, stated Chukovsky. Then, having made the necessary obeisance to the Kremlin, he went on strongly to praise his old friend as a "splendid fighter," a perfect model of how an artist "should defend...
...Over the years, it has committed some notable omissions, including Tolstoy, Strindberg, Proust, Valéry, Joyce...
There are a few flashes of wit ("Malraux is Hemingway grown up") and polemic ("the liberal temperament's besetting weakness is parochialism"). More typically, though, he writes of Thucydides n words that might have come from the Pentagon itself. Later he asserts that 'Tolstoy is a very large man. When we read him we too must enlarge ourselves." It looks like a very large 50 years for literature...
...Paris military prison where her husband was held. Right behind her is Emile Zola. Other strips of film show Pierre Renoir, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Sarah Bernhardt, Pavlova, Sacha Guitry, Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef, British Suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Leo Tolstoy, James M. Barrie...