The most useful criterion, in my opinion, is how satisfactorily the two authors answer the question: What is the Meaning of Life? What I find mesmerizing in Dostoevsky is not just the details of the story, the particular twists and turns of the lives of Rodion Raskolnikov or Dmitri Karamazov; it is the mere possibility of their existence. Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner’s conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters loom over Western literature. His protagonist is the head, but his hero is the heart. Take the run of scenes around Kitty and Vronsky’s ball in Anna Karenina. For Dostoevsky, reason is always tainted by egotism, and therefore he relies on love to spur moral impulses. I fall into the Dostoevsky camp - i bump into Dostoevsky exciting to envision, and that i do not have an identical volume of exciting interpreting Tolstoy. The section on "The Idiot" (my favorite Dostoevsky novel) has so many new and thoughtful insights I had to get out the old index cards and make notes. Every time i re-read karamazov or c&p or idiotbor possessed i get sucked in completely all over again. Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year, says Fierro, director of Brooklyn’s Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, has written “a novel to slowly savor, settling in with her characters as you would old friends.” (Michael B. It consisted of us talki For history, I lean towards Tolstoy, but I prefer Dusty’s writings. Each of the two offers profound insights about psychology. I have the usual reasons for thinking of Tolstoy as the “better” — really, as the best — novelist. That is artistry, and that is powerful. Both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky emerged like potatoes out of a giant plastic bag containing several books of ranging worth. Both are great writers. | Bibliotecário de Babel, Não é messi vs ronaldo, mas é quase tão importante. One of the greatest gifts in my life is my native language. Tolstoy emphasizes the ways in which people relate to one another in a societal context. With uncanny accuracy, The Demons predicted, in detail, what totalitarianism would be. If one of them had never lived where would the greater loss lie?That being said, Tolstoy was the superior craftsman. All I know is, when I first read Crime and Punishment, that book represented a lot of work for me. I read “The Brothers Karamazov” on my own and got buried in it, only coming up for air a few times. I’m going to give Dostoevsky the first half of the 20th Century, and Tolstoy the second half. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury ($12.62), Editors’ Picks When we say what Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are very different novelists, we should remember what they lived very difference lifes. Instead, I married her. Publishers appear to still be having luck pricing ebooks pricing near the magic $9.99 number that has been a focus for many in the industry (all prices as of this writing), though aggressive pricing on some backlist titles is clearly driving brisk sales. To Philip Lee: Actually, Mahler is the greater composer. To me there is no doubt who is the greatest. Greatness has room for more than two! do they speak broadly about “the human experience/condition” or are they more about the individual making their way through life ? You will overcome the night of your life if you stick with the Christ. That said, some books, such as those of Proust, defeat this parsimonious distinction. I believe that most humans are just as erratic as Dostoevsky’s characters, it’s just that their inner struggles and psychological states are not directly observable. I experience his books as a ceaseless battle of demons that never rest — not even as you turn the page, as you end a chapter, as you finish the novel and read it again. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Tolstoy had his focus more on society, Dostoyevsky on individual. I believe John has it right. Tolstoy’s most evil characters, like Dolokhov in War and Peace, seem to invade his texts from another (Dostoevskian?) No se trata, por supuesto, de elegir entre uno y otro, Tolstoi y Dostoievski. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. No one has described childhood, family life, farming, hunting, and war any better. Aunque la correcta comparación entre Tolstoi y Homero, da que pensar. Κατ' αρχάς δεν είναι μια "μάχη" που αναδεικνύει νικητή, ίσως δεν βρισκόταν καν στην πρόθεση του Steiner. Dostoevsky’s fiction aims at the revelation of character to the fullest extent possible. I love this essay! It abounds in literary-historical insight; it goes to the heart of these authors' achievements. Twice two is four, but twice two is five is a charming little thing too. However, I do agree with Ellen Chances that there should really be no comparison as to which is greater, but which the reader likes better. كتاب جيد وممتع جدًا. Suddenly an image appears in the darkness: a thin, timid girl in a green shawl, her face pale and drawn from illness. Women like Kitty and Anna Karenina! Tolstoy is great with his imagery, and I agree with whoever stated that one is placed into a whole seperate world when reading his novel, War and Peace. cause of his books . Quiz Stats. The truth is that Tolstoy, as an epic writer, is majestically brilliant at his craft, while Dostoevsky, as a dramatic writer, has his many moments of genius (Mitya and Grushenka’s night together just before Mitya’s arrest, for instance), but all too often falls into the worst conventions of nineteenth century melodramatic theatre. I like having to throw down like this, and the necessary test of character and sensitivity is a good thing. And his women are always smarter than his men. Which is better, the sky or the grass, night or day?”. Y en La recherche hay una clase sobre Dostoievski. He compares Tolstoy's "War and Peace" to the Iliad of Homer. In 2012 it was 33% and the year before it was 25%. Who could imagine an interesting conversation with her or anna? Μια υπέροχη εισαγωγή σε έναν ολόκληρο κόσμο! It’s Tolstoy’s scenes, though, which impress me most. « gettinginnyc, Tolstoi ou Dostoievski? I believe it would have been even more interesting if you would have asked a Russian person, as due to translation, due to cultural difference, due to Russian Soul, some phrases are being misunderstood, which leads to the lose of the main moral of the book. The people! For both feelings trump reason in the soul, though Tolstoy is closer to the Greeks and the Enlightenment in his association of virtue with reason. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300069174/tolstoy-or-dostoevsky No question in my mind that fyodor would have been way more interesting to talk to than leo. Tolstoy for middle age, Dostoevsky for your twenties. Dostoevsky challenges you. On the contrary every Dostoevsky read is an entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, down-to-earth experiences. Oh Moe Murph, I was thinking i should tone it down — thank you and happy New Year to you! His War and Peace is boringly and a waste of time to read. “So great is the worth of Dostoievsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world; and he will bear witness for his countrymen at the last judgment of the nations.” (p. 227). The characters! I hadn’t DONE anything. Το μεγαλύτερο κέρδος για μένα ήταν ο Tolstoy, τον οποία είχα υποτιμήσει. As I’m reading Tolstoy, I’m drawn into a dream of serfs and country estates, endless royal titles and army ranks. They are also available on Apple and other platforms, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales, Reading War and Peace: The Effects of Great Art on an Ordinary Life. When I was in my early twenties, one of my friends drunkenly stabbed another. George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. He suffered from epilepsy, Tolstoy form syphilis, D. went through a mock execution and years in forced labour camps, Tolstoy went to war, Dostoyevsky was bankrupt himself and took on his brother’s debts, Tolstoy never really had to worry how to feed his family. As it turned out, I was not the first to consider the provocation. YES! It was riveting, powerful, outrageous, and touching. Between them, they reveal the secret of life. Move this mountain, and I will believe! But I get why others go with Francis. Los dos son imprescindibles, los dos son grandísimos artistas. When i tried to re-read anna k i fell asleep – like being trapped on an elevator with a beautiful but utterly stupid woman. Obviously, there’s really no imperative reason to make this an either/or question except for the fact that you can. And I’m always overpowered by the way his novels describe everyone from the inside, even the dogs and horses. Fox 8 by George Saunders ($0.99) There’s the incredible variety of scenes and subjects he explores; there’s his precise, uncluttered style; there’s his epic tone, with its special combination of detachment and humanity. We behave as if we believed that each moment allows for more than one possible outcome and that our freedom that makes us in principle unpredictable. – http://rbth.co.uk/blogs/2014/09/23/did_dostoevsky_and_tolstoy_meet_each_other_40031.html). But now I am reading it, and it is slow going to begin with, but i love his characters and his sense of humor and I can see that the tale will gradually grow and expand into a whole created world. Tolstoy: epic figure; physicality; lack of deeper spiritual experience; more accomplished artist; more “sociologically” interesting; less influential in the 20th C; master of the normal; great psychologists; great at female psychology; big daddy for a few modern writers (Solzhenitsyn, Martin Du Gard, Lawrence, Hemingway,..); precursor- Homer, Dostoevsky: dramatist visionary; pneumatologist, not psychologist; inferior in portraiture of women and everyday life; great technical innovator (interior monologue in “The Gentle Creature”; confessional narrative in the “Underground”; compression of time in great novels); sometimes lapses into bad taste and sentimentality; visionary prophet, knows of worlds Tolstoy is unaware of; big daddy of many modern novelists (Gide, Faulkner, Camus, Proust, Miller, Mann (in “Faustus”), Coetzee, Hamsun, Conrad (unwillingly), Pio Baroja, Garcia Marquez, Kafka, ..); precursors- Dante and Shakespeare. Sometimes is fascinating. Kreutzer…). Tolstoy, through his character, Levin, in Anna Karenina, asked what the meaning of life is. Another thing is that the characters and their themes are only a backdrop to their political views, Dostoevsky is ambiguous but also very emphatic, not as Milton and Dante used Christian themes, but more dependent. I was angry with myself and frustrated, but I had no major regrets. You’ve thought this exact same thing so many times! I do appreciate the respect that’s being shown and the good manners, but this one’s simple. Sophia A., it seems, was a stronger editor. Why does everything have to be a race? Es mi duda también. The question, in my mind, is meaningless. its simple . Bruckner likes beer, Mahler likes wine. Nearly every aspect of these two authors (beyond ethnicity, book length, or notoriety) is opposite, even down to when and why they did their writing. Steiner's thesis is that these -- the world's two greatest novelists -- have rival conceptions of not only the techniques of fiction, but also salvation, society, sin, God, and redemption. Learn how your comment data is processed. I love mankind, but how can you expect me to love the stinking, jabbering drunk across the table, the loser who sold his own daughter into prostitution so he could sit here and drink? I could feel that “field of possibilities” before me, which causes an agony of choice. Crime and Punishment followed shortly after, with the same scandalous lack of veneration. Why didn’t he consider other paths, other solutions? Embedded within those choices are actions of great good and great evil, which cause us suffering. Tolstoy depicts crimes, such as the lynching of Vereshchagin (War and Peace) or uxoricide in Kreutzer Sonata, but not the pure malice embodied in such Dostoevskian characters as Stavrogin (Demons) or Smerdyakov (Brothers Karamazov). The last book that Leo Tolstoy had read in his life, during his final days before fleeing Yasnaya Polyana and dying at Astapovo station, was “The Karamazov Brothers” by Dostoevsky. It was on the cusp of her breakthrough essay collection Bad Feminist. You can feel the boundless love for human kind in his works. It lead me to this site, because I was puzzled, when I first was in Russia, how little attention is paid to Tolstoy. Each of the two offers profound insights about psychology. Ο Ηλίθιος παρέμεινε πάντα το αγαπημένο μου. (Lydia), The Gypsy Moth Summer by Julia Fierro: In this follow-up to Cutting Teeth, about a zeitgeisty group portrait of Brooklyn hipster moms, Fierro turns back the clock to the summer of 1992 when a plague of gypsy moths infests Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island, setting in motion a complex tale of interracial love, class conflict, and possible industrial poisoning at the local aircraft factory. And gives you to choose. Tolstoy supporters consistently attack the “over the top” and unrelatable characters in Dostoevsky’s novels, yet I would argue Dostoevsky’s characters are in fact more realistic than almost any in literature. (Tess M.), The Changeling by Victor LaValle: A book that somehow manages to be a fairy tale, an agonizing parenting story, a wrenching metaphor for America’s foundational racist ills, and a gripping page-turner to usher in the summer. If God exists, then how can he allow ME to walk the earth, sick, sniveling, spiteful creature that I am, scrawny spawn of the most abstract and premeditated city on the earth? Tolsvoj was a pedagogue, a father, a husband. I do think that his suffering and vision was more about overcoming external obstacles rather than Tolstoy’s honest, lacerating, but essentially self-inflicted doubts and pains. One of the worrisome tendencies of contemporary society is its impulse to rank. Tolstoy’s guys are mostly shallow bores and his women are total airheads. He also slices out Russian Literature as an anomaly, because it does not fit objective nor subjective criticism. Therefore, what is your Soul’s destiny ? Here’s what we’re looking out for this month. Literature experts have extensively debated about who was the greatest Russian novelist. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Tolstoy writes in the boundaries of normality. The intellect sends forth an unending flow of words. His witty, imaginitive, and multifaceted genius is unsurpassed in terms of pleasure reading. Framing the question, “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: Who’s the better novelist?,” in this way does a disservice, it seems to me, to the act of contemplating the meaning of these writers’ books. You know, Dostoevsky is not a cheater. I have the same reaction to Tolstoy’s writing as his sister-in-law, Tanya Bers, who was the model for Natasha in War and Peace: “I can see how you are able to describe landowners, fathers, generals, soldiers,” she told him, “but how can you insinuate yourself into the heart of a girl in love, how can you describe the sensation of a mother — for the life of me I cannot understand.” I think Tolstoy is better at “insinuating himself” than any other novelist. Steiner, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky represent the most sublime literature of the Steiner’s phrases contain Homer, Shakespeare, Dante… Their work is “massive,” “titanic,” “epic.” together, and the title implies, “These are the two greatest novelists of all, Though the latter is very rich, it is often summarized in a “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky” debate. But when reading Anna Karenina I felt disconnected from this very simple way of looking at humans. Dostoevsky went all in with his cross. Steiner's thesis is that, despite the many dislocations of modern. He showed the obsessive power of ideas and the psychological crises, cracks, and explosions of the soul that have become familiar in our modern world. We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful (and give us a chance to note titles we missed the first time around). Dostoyevsky, an officer and a nobleman like Tolstoy but never as secure, doesn’t have this attitude. Yet both are geniuses compared to kitty who is a complete and utter bore from start to finish. “As is usually the case” and “such as often occurs” are phrases you encounter frequently in Tolstoy. A wonderful book. People prefer doewhatchadiddle over toystory because they have read the one and not the other. If we once acknowledge that we will never have a social science, then we will, like General Kutuzov, learn to make decisions differently. Dostoevsky concentrates more on evil; for this reason his writings anticipate the horrors of the twentieth and the nascent twenty-first centuries. Heads up: Dostoevsky, then. In the excerpt below, Nicolai Berdyaev (1874-1948), the Russian philosopher, in his Dostoievsky – An Interpretation, tries to answer both: “It is possible that Tolstoy was a finer artist than Dostoievsky, that his novels, as novels, are the better…. Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 1881) and Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) regularly top the polls of most influential novelists. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt ($6.99) There is no other way than to face the hell itself. Dostoevsky teaches you the game of witnessing your own life. AN EIGHTH Day Book(s) Review of Tolstoy or Dostoevsky by George Steiner: The lack of a question mark in the title reveals much about Steiner’s mind concerning his two subjects. Merci, merci, merci, o kind sir, for rescuing me from the false belief that the great are all great in exactly the same way! Now Chekov….I love! - EYES-WIDE.com, Cats and Dogs – musings on Tolstoy « Notes from an Idiot. Jesus, could that guy write! So if I say Dostoevsky is a greater writer than Tolstoy, I only mean he has been greater to me. When I read Dostoevsky, I felt that he was tapping into my personal psychology, and I could feel my understanding of myself grow instead. If socialism is worse, it is because it also presumes that experts know how to organize life for the best and socialism not only denies but actively removes choice for a supposedly higher good. What he doesn’t do, however, is make you love life in all its manifestations. And in this fractured ebook landscape, you’ve also got your NookBooks, Google ebooks, Apple ibooks, and the IndieBound ereader app that lets you buy ebooks from your favorite indie bookstore. Una nota. She smiles joyfully and stretches out her hand to me. Just another take on what is admittedly a silly, although fun, inquiry. WAP) and poetic; sticks largely with the tangible. I’m voting Tolstoy, with one caveat- I never read, and probably never will read, anything he wrote while standing alone on the roof my house, looking down at the driveway…. I read all his novels, short stories, and a good part of his articles in a couple of years in my early twenties and his great novels (my favourites were “The Idiot” and particularly “The Brothers Karamazov”) made an overwhelming impression on me. It seems everyone is assuming that what one likes as a young person is somehow of less value. Tolstoy, a morning writer, had the luxury of a palatial estate and storied name within Russia’s upper class. Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov, in The Brothers Karamazov, asked how a just God could have created a world that includes the suffering of innocent children. The variety among them (greater than in Dostoevsky) is a result of a practically but not theoretically infinite number of combinations among all the possibilities inherent in human nature, and the interaction of these with the outside world. But he does acknowledge a main strength of Tolstoy. …..but Dostoevsky would represent the world’s greater loss. I thoroughly enjoyed Steiner's illuminating comparisons: he explains, for example, how Tolstoy is like Homer, how Dostoevsky is like Shakespeare and Melville, and how Russian literature is like American literature. Russian culture is inseparable from Russian literature. Dostoevsky could have broke the barrier for fiquring out the world’s greatest quandary of motivation for living but he was stymied by the Roman-Catholic Religion. Dostoevsky’s world, by contrast, is one in which you can come home one evening and “suddenly” find an axe buried in your skull. by Yale University Press, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism. Such lovely prose, such little substance. Maravilloso. What other political figure would say such a thing? Like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy also denied the possibility of a social science, which must always wind up resembling the “science of warfare” preached by the generals in War and Peace. Sonya jumps up, looks at him and trembles. No other novelist can show you so much, so quickly. This implies that there is a winner and a loser. (#TeamTolstoy, por cierto). Like others have argued; it’s a matter of preference, depending on one’s attitudes towards life. Not coincidentally, Tolstoy is also celebrated for his portraits of nature and animals. Dostoevsky, on the other hand, belongs within the bounds of the "tragic" writers descending from Oedipus Rex. Though the latter is very rich, it is often summarized in a “Tolstoy or Dostoevsky” debate. Refresh and try again. It’s not just that his short scenes move quickly, though; it’s that they let Tolstoy focus on very ordinary things, like the color of a dress. Problemente Proust. Not a single dostoevsky character fails to throw out thought provoking statements. Κλασική (δηλαδή ερμηνευτικά κρίσιμη) μελέτη από έναν μεγάλο για δύο συγγραφείς που καθόρισαν την Λογοτεχνία. He has no sleep. You know I’m really surprised at all the ‘too close to call’ comments. Dostoevsky, without question, is the greater novelist; it well may be that Anna Karenenia, despite that vacuous opening sentence, is greater than any of Dostoevsky’s novels. With each new holiday season the reach of ereaders expands, as a new crop of Kindles, Nooks and iPads are fired up. True, Dostoevsky saw and felt modern experience in all of its isolating, tragic depth. ‘No, tell me, can he be allowed to go on dishonoring the earth with himself?’. The Round House by Louise Erdrich ($8.61) Pero le es imprescindible el complemento de la perfección de Tolstoi y la de Chéjov, el autor de cuentos más admirado en el siglo XX. Dostoyevsky is grueling and dark and often boring, the dialogues are simply not organic or believable. That energy comes about, in Dostoevsky, through the clash of ideas, through the tension he creates through suspense and the use of words like “suddenly.” Ivan Karamazov says that he loves life more than the meaning of life. Tolstoy makes me consider life from all its possible angles and somehow feels closer to my experience of living in all its greatest minutae. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky by George Steiner, 1985, University of Chicago Press edition, in English Even poor unschooled little sonia has far more native intelligence than raskolnikov. Steiner's thesis is that, despite the many dislocations of modernity, western culture is still comprehensible as a unity, and the two Russian masters of the novel are best understood as carrying on ancient traditions: Tolstoy as the modern master of epic, the legatee of Homer, and Dostoevsky as our great tragedian, inheritor of the Athenian playwrights and of Shakespeare. Tolstoy’s novels depict the norms and continuities of human behavior by means of grand narratives that expand slowly over time and against the backdrop of vast natural tableaus. I love them both (and for the Chekhov admirers, him equally) so I’ll go back now and read all the learned comments and the posts. Five good reads for March 5 – Ranking the Russians | Edmonton Journal, http://rbth.co.uk/blogs/2014/09/23/did_dostoevsky_and_tolstoy_meet_each_other_40031.html, A 2014 Cheat Sheet for All You New Kindle (and Other E-Reader) Owners. Steiner se mergulha na basta produção literária dos dois maiores romancistas russos, Leon Tolstoi e Fiodr Dostoiévski, analisando suas formas de narrar desde um ponto de vista filosófico e muito profundo. I'm surprised and delighted by this analogy: the more I ponder it, the more clear it becomes! Then a gaggle of children run to Anna, Anna takes them in her arms, and the scene ends. Here is an excerpt of my research from a website: “A year later, in 1881, Dostoevsky passed away. He attacks the most intimate problems of human soul. If social scientists understood people as well as Tolstoy, they would have been able to depict a human being as believable as Tolstoy’s characters, but of course none has come close. Hunger by Roxane Gay: A few years ago, Gay wrote Tumblr posts on cooking and her complex relationship with food that were honest yet meditative. A complete and utter bore from start to finish his characters better than.! 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