Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article is devoted to the question of the perception of the novel “War and Peace” by N. D. Khvoshchinskaya (V. Krestovsky-pseudonym). In her articles there are isolated references to L. N. Tolstoy, but only direct judgments about “War and Peace” are preserved in letters of 1868 to her close friend O. A. Novikova. When discussing these reviews, it is necessary to take into account that we are not talking about a public, but a private, fundamentally polemical response. Khvoschinskaya’s judgments mainly concern several points: the depiction of fictional characters, the naturalism of Tolstoy’s descriptions, the author’s intentions and Tolstoy’s attitude towards the people. Not all of the writer’s reproaches are fair, but at the same time, as an artistically sensitive reader, she sees details that eluded the attention of Tolstoy’s other contemporaries.
Source: Culture and Text
Author: E. N. Stroganova
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4399400588