Tolstoy’s Hero: On Hadji Murád
Tolstoy spoke of heroes with disdain, but he could not let go of them in his art.
Tolstoy spoke of heroes with disdain, but he could not let go of them in his art.
The Locas stories have their moments, but overall, they’re an erratic, haphazardly conceived mess.
Nin’s fiction promoted a balance between external reality and the imaginative life.
Godard renders the title character’s anomie as dispassionately as one might write out a math problem.
The photographs leave one with a greater objectivity, a more complete concept of the moment depicted.
Adolescent bliss has never been captured better on film.