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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Arthur Chu Retweeted Agnes Callard
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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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
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.
Tolstoy does an amazing job of drawing his self-inserts very vividly and colorfully and making you fucking despise them and yet you're painfully aware the narrative says they're actually right and people should listen to their pontificating
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