Publication

1959 - Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

88,500 words, Guess

Page Count

354 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC891.733
  • LCCPG3410 .S8

Description

"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 master, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: an essay in the old criticism.Knopf1959-01-01
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