Saturday, August 18, 2012

Tolstoy Rejected Copyrights as Evil

Which I suppose is easy when people say about you:

Later critics and novelists continue to bear testament to Tolstoy's art. Virginia Woolf declared him the greatest of all novelists. James Joyce noted that, "He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!". Thomas Mann wrote of Tolstoy's seemingly guileless artistry: "Seldom did art work so much like nature". Such sentiments were shared by the likes of ProustFaulkner and Nabokov. The latter heaped superlatives upon The Death of Ivan Ilyichand Anna Karenina; he questioned, however, the reputation of War and Peace, and sharply criticized Resurrection and The Kreutzer Sonata.

Or maybe he was great because he rejected copyrights.

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