Meaning of Tolstoevsky | Babel Free

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The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus

informal

Examples

“The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy.”

“But how Tolstoy felt about Dostoevsky is of less importance to the present chapter – which is not a study in Tolstoevsky – than what is revealed by how he managed those feelings.”

“But, if Terra (be it our world, its portrayal in the novels of "Tolstoevsky," or the "Terrible World" of Blok) actually exists, why not also to assume that water has a language?”

“For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored.”

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