Article on Tolstoy Marx and Aesthetics  pretty good  Need JSTOR or other access to see full text  httpwwwspringerlinkcomcontentmrh   Seems to me that Tolstoys aesthetic views are as interesting to me more interesting than his views on religion or politics but thats just me  Still I guess Im 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  Theres another whole article on just how he depicts hands  I have the link somewhere   LeValley