Tolstoy and Merezhkovsky: the übermensch controversy
Keywords:
Russian literature, Russian modernism, Leo Tolstoy, Merezhkovsky, Napoleon, ÜbermenschAbstract
The article deals with the reception of an idea of Übermensch by Leo Tolstoy and Dmitry Merezhkovsky. The article analyzes the book «L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky» written by Merezhkovsky and the attitude of these two authors towards Napoleon. For Merezhkovsky Napoleon was the crucial hero in the history of the world, but for Tolstoy he wasn’t an independent figure. Merezhkovsky strongly rejects Tolstoy's image of Napoleon and opposes it with his own conception of this historical actor.
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Литература
Андрущенко Е.А. Властелин «чужого»: текстология и проблемы поэтики Д.С. Мережковского. Москва: Водолей, 2012. 248 c.
Мережковский Д.С. Л. Толстой и Достоевский. Москва: Наука, 2000. 589 c.
References
Andrushchenko, E.A. (2012). Vlastelin «chuzhogo»: textologiya i problem poetiki
D.S. Merezhkovskogo [The Lord of the Stranger: Textology and the Problems of the Poetics of D.S. Merezhkovsky]. 248 p. (In Russian)
Merezhkovsky, D.S. (2000). Tolstoy i Dostoevsky [Tolstoy and Dostoevsky]. 589 p. (In Russian)
