Some Wild Creature
James Meek: Tolstoy Leaves Home, 22 July 2010
The Death of Tolstoy: Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910
by William Nickell.
Cornell, 209 pp., £18.95, May 2010,978 0 8014 4834 8 Show More
by William Nickell.
Cornell, 209 pp., £18.95, May 2010,
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
translated by Cathy Porter.
Alma, 609 pp., £9.99, February 2010,978 1 84688 102 2 Show More
translated by Cathy Porter.
Alma, 609 pp., £9.99, February 2010,
A Confession
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs.
Hesperus, 146 pp., £7.99, February 2010,978 1 84391 190 6 Show More
by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs.
Hesperus, 146 pp., £7.99, February 2010,
Anniversary Essays on Tolstoy
by Donna TussingOrwin.
Cambridge, 268 pp., £55, February 2010,978 0 521 51491 0 Show More
by Donna TussingOrwin.
Cambridge, 268 pp., £55, February 2010,
“... What are we saying when we say someone has ‘gone out of their mind’? The thing about going out of your mind is that the mind is still there; you can go back. You haven’t lost your mind. You’ve just gone out of it. The Russians use the same phrase. The Russian adjective meaning ‘crazy’, which is the same as the noun for ‘insane person’, is sumasshedshy, literally ‘who was going out of their mind ... ”