by Steven Axelrod | Jan 5, 2015 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a weekly series of blog posts by Steven Axelrod, a writer reflecting on Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece, War and Peace, a monumental journey of a novel that he has embarked on completing this winter. My relationship to...
by Steven Axelrod | Dec 29, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of blog posts by Steven Axelrod, a writer reflecting on Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece, War and Peace, a monumental journey of a novel that he has embarked on completing this winter. Sarah Hughes wound up...
by Steven Axelrod | Dec 22, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of blog posts by Steven Axelrod, a writer reflecting on Leo Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece, War and Peace, a monumental journey of a novel that he has embarked on completing this winter. A friend of mine complained...
by Steven Axelrod | Dec 16, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest
Starting a classic novel in translation is like arriving in a foreign city. You look for familiar sights: street signs, even if they’re written in a language or an alphabet you can’t decipher; streets, even if they twist out of sight, cars parked along the curb even...
by Steven Axelrod | Dec 8, 2014 | Creative Non-Fiction, Of Literary Interest
I have always had a problem with the classics. I find them remote and forbidding. Dauntingly verbose, armored with generations of academic exegisis, their aura of difficulty and virtue sealed under a yellowing veneer of remote time periods and foreign cultures, they...
