Vogüé surveys the epochs of Russian literature and then studies its masters in turn: Pushkin and Romantic poetry, Gogol and the rise of realism, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He retells their novels, such as Dostoevsky’s tale of two lonely waifs who keep each other alive, and asks what the Russian spirit could teach France.
A landmark of criticism that made the Russian novel fashionable across Europe in the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.