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Tolstoy and Anna Karenina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Extract

The problem offered by Count Leo Tolstoy to the world has not been advanced appreciably nor has a definite soluio been offered during the past years. Large numbers of hitherto unknown articles and stories have been brought to light. Nearly every person connected with the great writer during his last years has published memoirs and reminiscences. Nevertheless the serious question as to the nature of the real greatness of the man is still unanswered and no one has attempted a synthesis of the various views held about him.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1927

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References

1 Val. Bulgakov, Tolstoy the Moralist, Prague 1923, pp. 6 f.

2 Vol. IV, St. Petersburg, 1912.

3 M. A. Aldanov, Zagadka Tolstogo (The Riddle of Tolstoy), Berli: 1923, pp. 126 f.

4 Dostoyevsky, Dnevnik Pisatelya July-Aug. 1877, ed. Ladyzhnikov, Berlin 1922, pp. 320 f.

5 Op. cit., pp. 89 f.

6 M. S. Gromeka, Posledniya proizvedenija gr. L. N. Tolstogo, p. 61; quoted by Aldanov, op. cit., p. 30.

7 Aldanov, op. cit., pp. 31 ff.

8 Kropotkin, Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature, Lond. 1905, p. 128.

9 L. Shestov, Dobro v uchenii Tolstogo i Nitshe (Good in the Teaching of Tolstoy and Nietsche), Berlin 1923, p. 15.

10 Ibid., p. 20.

11 Part IV, Chap. xvii.

12 Ed. Ladyzhnikov, Berlin, 1919, I, 202.

13 Sobraniye Sochineniy, Moscow, 1923, III, Tolstoy,5 p. 121.

14 Ed. cit., I, 96.

15 For other examples of the stupidity of officials compare the Death of Ivan Ilyich, the Living Corpse Act VI, Scene I, Resurrection, etc.

16 War and Peace, IV, 352.

17 Part VII, Chap. X.

18 Cf. the analysis in Dostoyevsky, Dnevnik Pisatelya, February 1877, pp. 79 ff.

19 I, 601.

20 Cf. the Kreutzer Sonata, the Afterward and other passages.

21 Dnevnik Pisatelya, July-August, 1877, pp. 326 f.

22 I,1 37.

23 I, 465.

24 I, 381.

25 II, 6 ff.

26 II, 495.

27 II, 534 f.

28 Op. cit., pp. 39-55.

29 V Yasnoy Polyanye, Prague, 1923, pp. 44 f.