Tolstoy doesn’t describe miracles. He reminds me of Peter Jackson’s directing Lord of the Rings. When transformations happen, people are looking at the sky. (That holds for War and Peace and Anna.)
Tolstoy feels so true to me. The Gospel is pretty hard to prove or describe, especially in literature or art.
Tolstoys tries to instantiate the gospel by overlaying the law and then showing the natural and supernatural consequences of either obeying or disobeying. He does this by shading in personal and social patterns resulting from decisions- like a sociologist would.
No shade or Dostoevsky, but doesn’t he basically do the same thing by going down the psychological route?
This is helpful! Thank you. Yeah they both write with subtlety if that’s what you’re getting at. I wanted to compare Anna to Raskolnikov in this essay but didn’t want to spoil crime and punishment. But neither get a miracle. I think what I’m getting at is the plausibility of Tolstoy’s Christians and the implausibility of Dostoyevsky’s. That probably has to do with the latter being an existentialist and the other not!! The existentialists resonate so deeply with me.
Tolstoy doesn’t describe miracles. He reminds me of Peter Jackson’s directing Lord of the Rings. When transformations happen, people are looking at the sky. (That holds for War and Peace and Anna.)
Tolstoy feels so true to me. The Gospel is pretty hard to prove or describe, especially in literature or art.
Tolstoys tries to instantiate the gospel by overlaying the law and then showing the natural and supernatural consequences of either obeying or disobeying. He does this by shading in personal and social patterns resulting from decisions- like a sociologist would.
No shade or Dostoevsky, but doesn’t he basically do the same thing by going down the psychological route?
This is helpful! Thank you. Yeah they both write with subtlety if that’s what you’re getting at. I wanted to compare Anna to Raskolnikov in this essay but didn’t want to spoil crime and punishment. But neither get a miracle. I think what I’m getting at is the plausibility of Tolstoy’s Christians and the implausibility of Dostoyevsky’s. That probably has to do with the latter being an existentialist and the other not!! The existentialists resonate so deeply with me.