Orwell wrote a whole long essay about Tolstoy's obsession with calling out Shakespeare and arguing that Shakespeare actually sucks and King Lear sucks especiallyhttps://twitter.com/AgnesCallard/status/1340154998609637378 …
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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 @BootlegGirl
Tbf my favorite part of reading Shakespeare is the lowbrow humor
Yeah Tolstoy didn't like that either
shades of tolkien flipping out at lewis because aslan is in fact distinct from jesus
Well... The ending of the Narnia books does make it super painfully clear he's Jesus ("he no long appeared as a lion to them")
yes- Tolstoy is a severe moralist and Shakespeare just likes the wait for it drama
It Tolstoy had written himself out of War and Peace (Pierre) it would be a better book. Take THAT Tolstoy.
Ps I did that (deleted Pierre) and it becomes a leaner version of the way time and ritual move through and beyond people and reward and punish them without arc or meaning.
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