Tolstoy: An Approach bound with Dostoevsky: A Study

This volume contains two concise works by the innovative twentieth-century literary critic Janko Lavrin. Tolstoy: An Approach, first published in 1944, seeks to discern the relationship between Tolstoy the novelist and Tolstoy the religious pseudo-prophet.In Dostoevsky: A Study, published first in 1943, Lavrin explores one of the most enigmatic writers in terms of the inter-connections between his life, thought, relationships, writing, and the socio-cultural circumstances in which he found himself.