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Orwell's diagnosis of Tolstoy's anger at Shakespeare is that Tolstoy had very strong *moral* opinions that you can see all through his work and got really mad at Shakespeare's tragedies for "violating his moral sense" Apparently Chekhov's sad plays fall in the same category
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I mean King Lear especially It's not so different from critics today who get all pissed off that something "wasted their time" if the story ends in futility Cc
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Has there ever been a normal Russian? I'm not sure.
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Orwell's essay was defending Shakespeare from Tolstoy, to clarify
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Tolstoy would have loved twitter. Arrogant, opinionated, talented, and paradoxical? He was ready built for this place.
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His wife would've MeTooed him
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