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Nathan Haskell Dole; Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
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R209
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This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
What is Art?
By Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
THIS book of mine, "What is Art? " appears now for the first time
in its true form. More than one edition has already been issued in
Russia, but in each case it has been so mutilated by the " Censor,"
that I request all who are interested in my views on art only to
judge of them by the work in its present shape. The causes which
led to the publication of the book - with my name attached to it -
in a mutilated form were the following: In accordance with a
decision I arrived at long ago, - not to submit my writings to the
" Censorship " (which I consider to be an immoral and irrational
institution), but to print them only in the shape in which they
were written, - I intended not to attempt to print this work in
Russia. However, my good acquaintance, Professor Grote, editor of a
Moscow psychological magazine, having heard of the contents of my
work, asked me to print it in his magazine, and promised me that he
would get the book through the "Censor's" office unmutilated if I
would but agree to a few very unimportant alterations, merely
toning down certain expressions. I was weak enough to agree to
this, and it has resulted in a book appearing under my name, from
which not only have some essential thoughts been excluded, but into
which the thoughts of other men - even thoughts utterly opposed to
my own convictions - have been introduced. The thing occurred in
this way. First, Grote softened my expressions, and in some cases
weakened them. For instance, he replaced the words: always by
sometimes, all by some, Church religion by Roman Catholic religion,
" Mother of God " by Madonna, patriotism by pseudo-patriotism,
palaces by palatii, etc., and I did not consider it necessary to
protest. But when the book was already in type, the Censor required
that whole sentences should be altered, and that instead of what I
said about the evil of landed property, a remark should be
substituted on the evils of a landless proletariat. I agreed to
this also, and to some further alterations. It seemed not
worthwhile to upset the whole affair for the sake of one sentence,
and when one alteration had been agreed to it seemed not worthwhile
to protest against a second and a third. So, little by little,
expressions crept into the book which altered the sense and
attributed things to me that I could not have wished to say. So
that by the time the book was printed it had been deprived of some
part of its integrity and sincerity. But there was consolation in
the thought that the book, even in this form, if it contains
something that is good, would be of use to Russian readers whom it
would otherwise not have reached. Things, however, turned out
otherwise. Nous comptions sans notre hote. After the legal term of
four days had already elapsed, the...
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