When most think of Tolstoy, they think of the great author. 'War
and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' brought him worldwide fame, and a
good deal of money. Had he done nothing else in life, these two
novels would have ensured him status and respect. Few others had
written both a national epic and a great love story; and some might
have been content with that. For his last thirty years, however,
Tolstoy walked a different track. After his spiritual crisis, when
he was 50, he exchanged his author's clothes for those of a prophet
- a prophet who was to have a great influence on Gandhi amongst
others. Through his prolific writing, he now became the scourge of
the rich, the Church and the Government. Neither did he miss an
opportunity to denounce both science and art. Darwin? Dostoyevsky?
Shakespeare? No one was to be left standing. In 'Conversations with
Leo Tolstoy', Simon Parke grants us the honour of sitting with the
great man, towards the end of his life; and gives us the chance to
chat with him. The conversation is imagined, but not Tolstoy's
answers. This is Tolstoy is his own words, drawn from his extensive
books, essays and letters; and the military, vegetarianism,
marriage, non-violence, death, God and sex are all on the agenda.
'I want people to come away feeling they know Tolstoy,' says Simon
Parke, who was keen to use only Tolstoy's authentic words. 'They
will be become aware of his opinions certainly, for he was
forthright in those. He had an opinion on everything! But I hope
also that people leave with a sense of the man beneath the
opinions. I don't always agree with him; but it is hard not to
admire him. He was far from perfect, but as he says: just because
he walks the road like a drunk, doesn't mean it's the wrong road.'
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