2007-01-26, 22:31
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Tror du på allvar att man kan tävla i litteratur?
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Väl talat. Jag bidrar med ord från ett gäng Tolstoj-fans:
"Tolstoy's contemporaries paid him lofty tributes: Dostoevsky thought him the finest of all living writers while Gustave Flaubert compared him to Shakespeare and gushed: "What an artist and what a psychologist!". Anton Chekhov, who often visited Tolstoy at his country estate, wrote: "When literature possesses a Tolstoy, it is easy and pleasant to be a writer; even when you know you have achieved nothing yourself and are still achieving nothing, this is not as terrible as it might otherwise be, because Tolstoy achieves for everyone. What he does serves to justify all the hopes and aspirations invested in literature." Ivan Turgenev called Tolstoi a "great writer of the Russian land".[4]
Later critics and novelists continue to bear testaments to his art: Virginia Woolf went on to declare him "greatest of all novelists", and James Joyce noted: "He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!". Thomas Mann wrote of his seemingly guileless artistry—"Seldom did art work so much like nature"—sentiments shared in part by many others, including Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, who placed him above all other Russian fiction writers, even Gogol, and equalled him with Pushkin among Russian poets."
Länk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy#Reputation
"Tolstoy's contemporaries paid him lofty tributes: Dostoevsky thought him the finest of all living writers while Gustave Flaubert compared him to Shakespeare and gushed: "What an artist and what a psychologist!". Anton Chekhov, who often visited Tolstoy at his country estate, wrote: "When literature possesses a Tolstoy, it is easy and pleasant to be a writer; even when you know you have achieved nothing yourself and are still achieving nothing, this is not as terrible as it might otherwise be, because Tolstoy achieves for everyone. What he does serves to justify all the hopes and aspirations invested in literature." Ivan Turgenev called Tolstoi a "great writer of the Russian land".[4]
Later critics and novelists continue to bear testaments to his art: Virginia Woolf went on to declare him "greatest of all novelists", and James Joyce noted: "He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!". Thomas Mann wrote of his seemingly guileless artistry—"Seldom did art work so much like nature"—sentiments shared in part by many others, including Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, who placed him above all other Russian fiction writers, even Gogol, and equalled him with Pushkin among Russian poets."
Länk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy#Reputation

För att vara en aning mer seriös så kan vi väl återknyta till diskussionen om jämförelsen mellan de båda titanerna Tolstoj och Dostojevskij. Jag har inte stött på någon seriös bedömare av litteratur som hävdar att Tolstoj är den större psykologiskt drivande författaren av de båda. Enligt min uppfattning har Tolstoj istället sina främsta fördelar i sina episka, historiskt intressanta, berättelser. Dostojevskij är istället mästaren rörande de aspekter i litteraturen som jag själv avser vara mest centrala.