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L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky was a literary essay (often referred to as a literary-critical essay) written by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and published between 1900 and 1901 in Mir Iskusstva magazine. The essay explored a comparison between the creativity and worldview of Leo Tolstoy and that of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
[14] In 2007, critic James Wood wrote in The New Yorker that their Dostoevsky translations are "justly celebrated" and argued that previous translators of Leo Tolstoy's work had "sidestepp[ed] difficult words, smooth[ed] the rhythm of the Russian, and eliminat[ed] one of Tolstoy's most distinctive elements, repetition," whereas Pevear and ...
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy [note 1] (/ ˈ t oʊ l s t ɔɪ, ˈ t ɒ l-/; [1] Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, [note 2] IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] ⓘ; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), [2] usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer ...
A statue of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in Moscow. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty ImagesAs someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s ...
Leo Tolstoy admired some of Dostoevsky's works, particularly The House of the Dead, which he saw as exalted religious art, inspired by deep faith and love of humanity. [163] [164] Albert Einstein called Dostoevsky a "great religious writer" who explores "the mystery of spiritual existence". [165]
The House of the Dead was the only work by Dostoevsky that Leo Tolstoy revered. [8] He saw it as exalted religious art, inspired by deep faith and love of humanity. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Turgenev , who was also not enamored of Dostoevsky's larger scale fiction (particularly Demons and Crime and Punishment ), described the bath-house scene from House of ...