Truth in Dying
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

Truth in DyingIt has long been a commonplace of Tolstoy scholarship, duly noted in every commentary on Anna Karenina, that Nikolai Levin is an artistic reincarnation of Tolstoy's own brother Dmitry, who died of tuberculosis in 1856, nearly twenty years before that novel was written.It would seem, therefore, that a comparison of the fi ctional character Nikolai Levin with what is known about the real Dmitry Tolstoy should provide some means, however meager and inadequate, for exploring the myster