Philosophy in Literature Blog
"What is Art?" asked Tolstoy.
Today’s passage is from one of Tolstoi’s later philosophical and polemical writings, “What is Art?”. This book contains so many beautiful proses reflective of Tolstoi’s opinions on what art during...
"What is Art?" asked Tolstoy.
Today’s passage is from one of Tolstoi’s later philosophical and polemical writings, “What is Art?”. This book contains so many beautiful proses reflective of Tolstoi’s opinions on what art during...
Thickets and pine trees covered the far side of...
As a child Pushkin would spend the summer months at his grandmother’s country house at Zakharovo located about thirty miles from Moscow. The house, with its two wings and flowers...
Thickets and pine trees covered the far side of...
As a child Pushkin would spend the summer months at his grandmother’s country house at Zakharovo located about thirty miles from Moscow. The house, with its two wings and flowers...
To My Son Alexander: "..we eliminate the old lie."
Upon completion and publication of his collection of articles and essays in “From the Other Shore.”, Alexander Herzen wrote a letter dedicating the book to his fifteen year old son....
To My Son Alexander: "..we eliminate the old lie."
Upon completion and publication of his collection of articles and essays in “From the Other Shore.”, Alexander Herzen wrote a letter dedicating the book to his fifteen year old son....
The Guide: "...still lost on the snow-covered s...
While traveling by sleigh to a remote military outpost Petrusha, one of the main characters in this passage from Pushkin’s, “The Captain's Daughter”, and his servant, Savelich, become lost in...
The Guide: "...still lost on the snow-covered s...
While traveling by sleigh to a remote military outpost Petrusha, one of the main characters in this passage from Pushkin’s, “The Captain's Daughter”, and his servant, Savelich, become lost in...
"..the breeze had dropped...the night was still.."
Today's passage from Tolstoi’s, “War and Peace”, in my opinion, exemplify the eloquence and depth found in the writings of Tolstoi and many of his contemporaries. “ With the setting...
"..the breeze had dropped...the night was still.."
Today's passage from Tolstoi’s, “War and Peace”, in my opinion, exemplify the eloquence and depth found in the writings of Tolstoi and many of his contemporaries. “ With the setting...
What Is To Be Done?
Like most non-Russians my introduction to 19th-century Russian writers was limited to the more popular works of Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky. It wasn't until I took it upon myself...
What Is To Be Done?
Like most non-Russians my introduction to 19th-century Russian writers was limited to the more popular works of Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky. It wasn't until I took it upon myself...