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The venerable Tolstoy, a secular saint in his time, called on him more than once; Tchaikovsky contemplated writing an opera with him at one time.
Much of the essay takes Du Bois to task for his "inadequate interpretation of the human condition"--translation: Du Bois didn't fight hard enough for the rights of women, homosexuals, and other oppressed minorities and doesn't seem to have thought much about writers like Tolstoy or Kafka--and his "inability to immerse himself fully in the rich cultural currents of black everyday life."
Tolstoy had something when he said that all happy families are alike, while every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
To paraphrase Tolstoy paraphrasing Pushkin: All grammatical expressions resemble each other; each ungrammatical expression is ungrammatical in its own way.
Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.