novels Archives - Dr Israel Drazin

13 12, 2013

An interesting novel

By Israel Drazin|2013-12-13T05:42:58-07:00December 13th, 2013|Book Reviews|

A Guide for the Perplexed A Novel By Dara Horn W. W. Norton &Co, 2013, 342 pages People who read this well-written novel will enjoy the plots in this story and learn much about the history and love of literature, ancient and modern; rational philosophy, such as do people have free will and [...]

15 11, 2011

Tolstoy did not respect women

By Israel Drazin|2011-11-15T04:54:55-07:00November 15th, 2011|Book Reviews|

Tolstoy A Russian Life By Rosamund Bartlett Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 544 pages Rosamund Bartlett, an authority on Russian culture, describes Lev Tolstoy, as she calls him, the greatest Russian writer, probably a genius, but a failure as a man. When he was young, he drank too much, gambled, and was over amorous with [...]