Article on Tolstoy Marx and Aesthetics pretty good Need JSTOR or other access to see full text Seems to me that Tolstoy s aesthetic views are as interesting to me more interesting than his views on religion or politics but that s just me Still I guess I m pondering adding a section on aesthetics One of the reasons Tolstoy has so many popular culture references is due to his strong sense of the visual and the sensual There s another whole article on just how he depicts hands I have the link somewhere LeValley