Title: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Subtitle: an essay in the old criticism
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Epic literature, History and criticism, Russian fiction, Tolstoy, leo, graf, 1828-1910, Epic literature
Places: Russia
People: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910)