Leo Tolstoy: A Total Genius of a Writer

RUSSIAN WRITERS like Leo Tolstoy are so tremendous.  It is amazing how Tolstoy and his magnificent work, 'Anna Karenina,' so completely captures all the complex variables of human behavior.  It is so difficult to encapsulate the wild rises and falls that take place in human lives and yet the Russian Genius of Words, Tolstoy does it with ease.  The unique quality  of the Tolstoyan characterizations is the way he blends lyrical romanticism in his people along with a powerful and so resonant sensuality...Tolstoy's brand of picaresque cleverness is overwhelming with its lean and passionate sonorous rampage of exciting and so memorable word descriptions.