/lit/ - Literature

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Why do anglos call him that when his name was Lev?

ITT: writers who are John Green-tier.

Pic related.

Let's speculate, /lit/:
What 20th century (or beyond) writers do you think Tolstoy would have enjoyed had he lived to read them?

Hard mode: explain your answer.

Stop using violence

Orwell identifies Tolstoy's chief quarrel with Shakespeare as "the quarrel between the religious and the humanist attitude towards life." The exuberance with life that characterizes Shakespeare, his interest in everything, the poetic brilliance - the very qualities for which people tend to admire Shakespeare - are precisely the qualities that make him unendurable to Tolstoy, who preached austerity and whose "main aim, in his later years, was to narrow the range of human consciousness. One's interests, one's points of attachment to the physical world and the day-to-day struggle, must be as few and not as many as possible." Since Shakespeare's attitude to life threatens Tolstoy's, Tolstoy is incapable of enjoying Shakespeare and mounts an assault on him in order to try to ensure that others cannot enjoy him either.

Essential Tolstoy?

Let's say first three recommended pieces.