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Introduction: The “Late” Tolstoi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

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Late Tolstoi
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2011

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References

1. Robert Louis Jackson, from a lecture course on Ivan Turgenev's works held at Yale University in the Spring of 1994.

2. A notable exception is Inessa Medzhibovskaya's major study Tobtoy and the Religious Culture of His Time: A Biography of a Long Conversion, 1845-1887 (Lanham, Md., 2008).

3. See Pickford's, Henry excellent article on Tolstoi and Wittgenstein, “Of Rules and Rails: On a Motif in Tolstoy and Wittgenstein,” Tolstoy Studies Journal 22 (2010): 3953.Google Scholar

4. Borges, Jorge Luis, Selected Poems, ed. Coleman, Alexander (New York, 1999), 149.Google Scholar

5. See [Maksim Gor'kii], Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences, trans., ed., and introduced by Donald Fanger (New Haven, 2008), 37. I greatly simplify Tolstoi, whose pithy comment is remarkable for claiming that Dostoevskii sought to revenge himself (presumably through fiction) for serving that in which he did not believe.

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