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"The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy"
"Did you know Tolstoy tried to limit his brothel visits to just twice a month? Tolstoy fucked hookers."
"Tolstoy would be a trust fund kid larping as working class. He would be super liberal and vocal on social media until he was forced to lay low for a while after being cancelled for having had an unequal power dynamic relationship with his maid"
"along with Christopher Lasch, Richard Hofstadter, Tolstoy (possibly), Foucault (cannot be denied)"
"Tolstoy wrote his play about a real case he heard of an alcoholic who faked his own suicide in Siberia. After his play became a hit, he met this man. He took him by the hand, persuaded him to quit drinking, and gave him a job in the court that convicted him."
"It didn't hurt that she was a brilliant lecturer and guided us through Tolstoy, Sebald, Knausgaard, etc. with ease."
"The level of psychological insight Tolstoy has into all these different people is breathtaking. It's kind of a cliché to say this, but they feel like real people I know, universal in their specificity."