How to pronounce “tolstoy” in English

Tolstoy's OK.

Tolstoy um it is human intelligence and creativity that transforms appealing

In addition to Tolstoy's dictum that the purpose of art is to teach us to love life, "Star Trek" has taught me something else--

is because Tolstoy's ambition is to talk about all of Russia, from the low to the high, from the young to the old.

When Leo Tolstoy was five years old, his brother Nikolai came to him and said he had discovered the secret to universal happiness, and he had engraved it on a little

but when Tolstoy was writing War and Peace in 1862 a horse was a horse and a carriage was a carriage.

Gary reads Tolstoy in the original Russian.

about check off and Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky and the stars and it was just it was so fascinating but Tolstoy actually was one of Russia's leading

rewriting Leo Tolstoy as the New York Times wrote in their glowing review of the book last year it takes a lot of

And so I think it was Tolstoy who said that everyone in their life-- they just want friends, family, to work with their hands,

But it looks like if Tolstoy had a mansion in Palm Springs, basically.

But how much the setting feels like Tolstoy, in that-- one of the reasons the book is so long

In the same way that Tolstoy was like, what does 19th century Russia look like?

You can actually see the note that Tolstoy wrote, because he became obsessed with this stick, but he never found it.

spoke about that world why did Tolstoy write about Russia write a Dickens write about England London during that time

after him and then interestingly Tolstoy I never knew this and one of the great things about writing this book is that

of already swirling around my head and tolstoy just kind of came along at the right time to provide the right

somehow very familiar I think Tolstoy zanuck Rena what makes her partially

or for some other reason want to read Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina."

And when I go to read my next book of Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace," I have been informed through that conversation with my wife.

And there was something about the way that Tolstoy wove the two stories of Pierre's existential crisis, and then Natasha having this first romantic disaster of her young life,

You have your Dostoevsky and your and your Tolstoys, and you have your poets.

One thing to start with-- I think going back to that idea that Tolstoy was trying to talk about everything that was 19th century Russia at that moment.

"I began reading literature again-- Solzhenitsin's "Cancer Ward," BS Johnson's "The Unfortunates," Tolstoy's "Ivan Ilyich," Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos,"

And I found it fascinating to find his, Tolstoy's, abstract concept so parallel to my functional

They said, "we're not looking at Tolstoy here -- talking about the style of Larsson's writing." And that's true -- we're not looking at Tolstoy but so what?

to immerse themselves in "Star Trek," which can, like Tolstoy, teach us to love life, believing that just as science shows us

And either the character is talking directly to you, or in the case of Tolstoy, that narration is directly to you.

Is it possible, all these years later, to say Tolstoy was right?

concept and I wrote an article about the functional aspect of art with his, with Tolstoy's ideas

And then there are books I pick up and they can be anything from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

here, I wanted to re-read the Thucydides or Gibbon or Tolstoy or Dickens or Balzac and

buried it and this was sort of his symbolic way of telling people that because he because Tolstoy believed that

Now keep in mind, I was a Russian language and literature major, so I was used to reading Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Unlike Oscar Wilde, who maintained that all art is useless, Leo Tolstoy,

No matter how beautiful, terrible, what we depict, I think Tolstoy is right.

In Cuba, the cigar rollers used to have professional readers brought over from Europe to read them Tolstoy and things like that.

So speaking of-- I love the idea that Tolstoy tried to write a book about everything.

And for those of you who would like to debate the free will issue, I think Tolstoy summed this up.

And she, when I gave her my idea on art she brought up the fact that Leo Tolstoy, a famous Russian author had written an article entitled "What is Art?"

Tolstoy didn't have to worry about the latest killer app, you know.

>>Female Presenter: yeah Gary: You know, back in the day, novelists -- I'm no Tolstoy,