Tolstoy or Dostoevsky

George Steiner

earliest edition we have, 1967 Faber, 1980 paperback 355 pages

"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 a...

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Tolstoy or Dostoevsky edition · 1996 · Yale University Press · 368 pages
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky edition · 1985 · University of Chicago Press · 354 pages
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky paperback · 1980 · Faber · 355 pages
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. edition · 1967 · Penguin

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