One of this author’s narrators questions “strange” phrases like “my land,” “my air,” or “my water,” in a story that ends as a prince’s rotting body is reburied in a uniform. Men leading dogs cry “ulyulyu (“ool-yool-yoo”)!” during a family’s elaborate wolf-hunt in one of this author’s novels. A novel by this author briefly takes the perspective of a bird-dog during a snipe-hunting outing in a marsh. In “Art as Device,” Viktor Shklovsky praised the “defamiliarization” created by this author adopting an old horse’s point of view in his story “Strider.” This author, who became vegetarian after his 1870s spiritual crisis, described Makhotin’s Gladiator being overtaken in an officers’ steeplechase that reveals the protagonist’s affair. For 10 points, what author created the horse Frou-Frou, whose back is broken while being ridden by Vronsky in Anna Karenina? ■END■
ANSWER: Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy] (The second sentence is from War and Peace.)
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