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To: jbe who wrote (46020)	7/18/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I like them a lot. I suspect they are better in Russian. And for some reason they write more detail about women, and much more legitimately about women than any other male writers I can think of (aside form Henry James).

To: jbe who wrote (46020)	7/18/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

My problems with Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov are a) I can't read them, I can only read translations of them, so I never know how much of what I'm reading is really the author and how much is the translator, plus subtleties, puns, etc. slide right past one, and b) I don't know enough about the culture they are talking about to understand the nuances and atmosphere. I have been to most of the cities and many of the towns or areas that Austen, Trollope, and Hardy write about. I have never been to Russia.