TOLSTOI ON FAME.
" Generally speaking," said Tolstoi, " fame, popularity, is a dangerous thing. It is also harmful because it prevents one from looking upon people simply, in a Christian way. Now, for instance, I find Gorky very pleasant as a man, and yet T can't behave to him with perfect sincerity. His popularity prevents me from doing so. It is ns if he were not in his right place. To him, too, his popularity is dangerous. His long novels are worse than his short stories, his plays are worse than his novels, and his addresses to the public are simply revolting. "Yet as someone said: If my work is abused bv every one, it means that there is something in it. If all praise it, it means that it is bad; but if some praise it very much, and others dislike it very much, then it is first-rate. ' According to this theory Gorky's-works arc first-rate. Well, it may be so." . . .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18861, 8 November 1924, Page 6 (Supplement)
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