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Tolstoy - Couverture rigide

Rappoport, Angelo Solomon

 
9781340629441: Tolstoy

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Russian authors. Some -fifty years ago Russian literature was practically unknown to Western Europe ;by the majority of people its very existence seems to have been unsuspected ;we find even so great an adventurer as Carlyle, himself guiding his countrymen to many new tracts of literary discovery, speaking of the great silent Russians who are drilling a whole continent into obedience, but who have produced nothing articulate as yet. 1I nless than thirty years from the time when Carlyle penned that sentence Russian literature had become recognised as one of the most powerful and vital in Europe; its influence, already enormous, increases every day ;it is great hi France, in Germany, in Scandinavia, even in conservative England ;hardly since the Renaissance has Europe beheld such a phenomenon a literary advance at once so rapid and so great. The truth is that we have seen in Russia a growth very similar to that which occurred in Western Europe at the time of the Renaissance. In the fifteenth arid sixteenth centuries Europe as a whole experienced the vivifying influence of two great literatures Greek and Latin and it had, at the same time, a mode of hie 1H eroes and Hero Worihip.
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