Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

• Author(s): George Steiner,
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Pages: 541
• ISBN_10: 0571266495
  ISBN_13: 9780571266494
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century ,

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 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.