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>I admire him greatly. What I admire the most in him is that he despises us all; all writers. Perhaps a more accurate description is that he treats us, other writers, as completely empty space. You could argue that from time to time, he praises Maupassant, or Kuprin, or Semenov, or myself. But why does he praise us? It is simple: it's because he looks at us as if we were children. Our short stories, or even our novels, all are child's play in comparison with his works.

>However, Shakespeare ... For him, the reason is different. Shakespeare irritates him because he is a grown-up writer, and does not write in the way that Tolstoy does.

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>Semenov

>> No.23133518

>>23133477
It was the same with his hatred for Aeschylus, Dante, Goethe, Beethoven, Wagner, etc. The irony being that Wagner loved War and Peace.

>> No.23133519

I doubt that's it bro tolstoy was bored to death reading that old witch crap, as I did.

>> No.23133535

>>23133477
>>23133518
>>23133519
there is a quote If I remember of tolstoy ranting about how jealous he is of other writers and this was in the same breath as speaking of dostoevsky

>> No.23133850 [DELETED] 

>>23133477
hy

>> No.23134210

>The nation of cultural imitators, copycats and mimics rants about its source of plagiarism
What an irony.