Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism: A Reader
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism: A Reader, co-edited by Lindsay Ceballos, D. Brian Kim, and Chloë Kitzinger (Amherst College Press, 2026).
At the turn of the twentieth century, Symbolist writers and thinkers at the forefront of Russian modernism cast Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy as their chosen ancestors—examples to be exalted, repudiated, and ultimately surpassed. Their writings transformed the way these novelists were read within and beyond the Russian Empire. Many of the Symbolist writings on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were long unavailable in English or were only available…
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism: A Reader, co-edited by Lindsay Ceballos, D. Brian Kim, and Chloë Kitzinger (Amherst College Press, 2026).
At the turn of the twentieth century, Symbolist writers and thinkers at the forefront of Russian modernism cast Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy as their chosen ancestors—examples to be exalted, repudiated, and ultimately surpassed. Their writings transformed the way these novelists were read within and beyond the Russian Empire. Many of the Symbolist writings on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were long unavailable in English or were only available…