Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: confrontation

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky is a truly visiting card of Russian literature for a foreign reader. These two creators have long been admired abroad, their works are found by more and more interpretations, and foreign writers are inspired by their skill. “Not a single English novelist can be compared with Tolstoy, who so fully portrayed a person’s life both from the private and heroic side. Not a single English novelist investigated the soul of a person as deep as Dostoevsky, ”said the famous writer E. M. Forster. American literary critic, professor George Stayner devoted his famous work to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, exploring the depth of the similarity of two geniuses and the abyss of their differences.