Around the world there have been festivals and other ceremonies to mark the centenary of the death of the Russian author Leo Tolstoy who died a vagabond on a railway station on November 7, 1910. In Australia the ABC has been running a fine series of documentaries on Radio National .
The late Australian author, Xavier Herbert, who wrote Capricornia and Poor Fellow My Country, most of their content inspired by Territory experiences , declared Tolstoy had ruined the end of the novel Anna Karenina by having her throw herself under a train because of jealousy and despair over her lover , the dashing military man, Alexei Vronsky.
Herbert felt Tolstoy had chickened out using this ending . In his opinion , he should have allowed the two to live together and all the tensions and passion of their relationship would have enhanced the book. Mind you, Xavier was noted for using trains to wipe out characters in his writing.
The late Australian author, Xavier Herbert, who wrote Capricornia and Poor Fellow My Country, most of their content inspired by Territory experiences , declared Tolstoy had ruined the end of the novel Anna Karenina by having her throw herself under a train because of jealousy and despair over her lover , the dashing military man, Alexei Vronsky.
Herbert felt Tolstoy had chickened out using this ending . In his opinion , he should have allowed the two to live together and all the tensions and passion of their relationship would have enhanced the book. Mind you, Xavier was noted for using trains to wipe out characters in his writing.
