Tolstoy or Dostoevsky by George Steiner (PDF)

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George Steiner’s Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity of a “tragic world view” from Oedipus Rex to King Lear and The Brothers Karamazov; the contrasts between the epic and dramatic modes, between irreconcilably opposed views of God and of history.

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⭐George Steiner is a sensitive and keen reader. After reading his essay, Tolstoy and Dostoievsky’s literature becomes more transparent, more intense, more revealing. And for those who love essays, this one is a very special one!

⭐Wonderful, readable, profound meditation on the two greatest of novelists.

⭐This passionate work of literary criticism compares Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and argues for the greatness of the latter and the danger of the former. While Dostoevsky stands for the rebel, Tolstoy stands for the desire to order society so harmoniously that free will might be lost. Both of their gifts are great, but they cannot be reconciled.There is something about these two that invites contrast. Isaiah Berlin takes rather a different stance on this in his famous essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox.” And Ivan Bunin loved Tolstoy and hated Dostoevsky. These two authors demand more than attention from their readers. They demand allegiance. And that allegiance seems to be non-transferable.

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