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Tolstoy As Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoyevsky
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Tolstoy As Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoyevsky

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A writer is both artist and human, someone whose expression of feeling depends on the written word. For generations of Russians, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky represented this figure more than anyone before or since-for these artists, to live is to be called to write. Tolstoy as Man and Artist with an Essay on Dostoevsky is a critical work by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781513288123
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
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PublisherMint Editions
Publishing date08/06/2021
SeriesMint Editions (In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
Pages206 pages
LanguageEnglish
File size3939 Kbytes
Article no.10042617
CatalogsVC
Data source no.4329245
Product groupSprachen
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Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866-1941) was a Russian novelist and poet. Born in Saint Petersburg, Merezhkovsky was raised in a prominent political family. At thirteen, while a student at the St. Petersburg Third Classic Gymnasium, Dmitry began writing poetry. Soon, he earned a reputation as a promising young writer and enrolled at the University of Saint Petersburg, where he completed his PhD with a study on Montaigne. In 1892, he published Symbols. Poems and Songs, a work inspired by Poe and Baudelaire in which Merezhkovsky explores his increasingly personal religious ideas. In 1895, he published The Death of the Gods, the first novel in his groundbreaking Christ and Antichrist Trilogy. With these novels, Merezhkovsky was recognized as a cofounder of the Russian Symbolist movement. In 1905, his apocalyptic Christian worldview seemed to come to fruition in the First Russian Revolution, which he supported through poetry and organizing groups of students and artists. Formerly a supporter of the Tsar, Merezhkovsky was involved in leftist politics by 1910, but soon became disillusioned with the rise of the radical Bolsheviks. In the aftermath of the October Revolution, Merezhkovsky and his wife, the poet Zinaida Gippius, were forced to flee Russia. Over the years, they would find safe harbor in Warsaw and Paris, where Merezhkovsky continued to write works of nonfiction while advocating for the Russian people. Toward the end of his life, he came to see through such leaders as Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, and Adolf Hitler a means of defeating Communism in Russia. Though scholars debate his level of commitment to fascist and nationalist ideologies, this nevertheless marked a sinister turn in an otherwise brilliant literary career. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature nine times without winning, Merezhkovsky is recognized as an important figure of the Silver Age of Russian art.