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Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study book cover

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Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

By Janko Lavrin Copyright 2015
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin, offering accessible and thoughtful introductions to the two greatest Russian novelists. It provides a perfect point of access into the often bewildering world of Russian literature, and the troubled geniuses which created it. Tolstoy: An Approach , first published in 1944, is an attempt to... Read more

Tolstoy: An Approach

Note.  1. Some General Remarks  2. The Art of Tolstoy (I)  3. The Art of Tolstoy (II)  4. Tolstoy’s Dilemma  5. Culture and Nature  6. The ‘Dragon of Death’  7. Tolstoy and Religion  8. The Millennium  9. A Puritan’s Progress  10. The Last Act  11. Tolstoy and the Revolution  12. Tolstoy and Nietzsche.  Conclusion

Dostoevsky: A Study

A Prefatory Note  1. Some Notes on Dostoevsky’s Life  2. Dostoevsky as Artist  3. Dostoevsky as Psychologist  4. The Quest of Values  5. The ‘Underworld’ Spirit  6. The Bankruptcy of the Superman  7. A Russian Don Quixote  8. Stavrogin’s Fate  9. A Raw Youth  10. ‘The Two Kinds of Truth’  11. Christ and His Double  12. Towards a Synthesis  13. The ‘Russian Idea’, Revolution and Religion.  Conclusion

Biography

Janko Lavrin

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