Lee's review
Hadji Murad (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
Lee's review
Hadji Murad (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Lee's review
rating:
Other than the title character, the other dudes didn't really come to life for me, other than a red-haired orge of a henchman who soon after disappeared. The last few pages are worth the trip though, as visceral and vivid as anything, but the other 130 or so, for the most part and compared to LT's other fiction, just didn't really do it for me, though they apparently did do it for Harold Bloom and other critics. Maybe I missed something entirely. Entirely possible. Maybe I had trouble following the whirling 3rd-person POV in such a short novel, the sudden jumps into Emperor Nicklas's noggin? Other than a few lines, the sentences didn't impart the sort of authority and wisdom you except from the dude. I had high expectations, I guess. Maybe I'll try again in the fall.
