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Labels: don delillo, paul anderson, size of books, stephen hawkings, susanna clarke, tolstoy, vikram seth posted by bibliobibuli at 7: 09 PM
The Incredible Shrinking Book Sharon Bakar 2005
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Labels: don delillo, paul anderson, size of books, stephen hawkings, susanna clarke, tolstoy, vikram seth posted by bibliobibuli at 7: 09 PM
Archive 2005-09-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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The fact that Druzhinin could have written to tolstoy in such a manner shows that they really were on familiar terms, and that Druzhinin could influence him.
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As far as I can remember, this was the only encounter between Turgenev and tolstoy at which I was present, and I cannot help saying that, although I understood that the controversy related to politics, I took too little interest in the subject to pay attention to it.
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E. Garshin, in his reminiscences of Turgenev, gives the following interesting account of Turgenev's opinion of tolstoy.
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Under the name Mimi is presented the governess of a neighboring house, and Katenka is Dunechka Temeshova, an adopted member of the tolstoy family.
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The unsuccessful campaign of the Army of the Danube, the dull life of the staff, all this wasunsatisfactory to tolstoy.
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Of course the host Nekrasov is trembling heart and soul: he is afraid to lose both Turgenev and tolstoy, in whom he foresees a powerful support for "The Contemporary," so he is bound to maneuver.
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In 1856 he was transferred to the 14th Battery, which tolstoy had recently quitted.
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Still a passionate gambler, he often fell victim to his own excesses. thus in the beginning of 1862, tolstoy lost 1,000 rubles in a game of billiards to Katkov, the well-known publicist and editor of "Moscow News."
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