VISUAL AND AUDIBLE IN DOSTOEVSKY AND TOLSTOY'S WORK
VISUAL AND AUDIBLE IN DOSTOEVSKY AND TOLSTOY'S WORK

Summary/Abstract: The paper starts with the finding that the literary and philosophical criticism considered that the monologue universe created by Tolstoy is fundamentally different from Dostoevsky’s polyphonic novel. But the dualism plasticity-musicality is inaccurate: Tolstoy's universe is surrounded by the music of nature and Dostoevsky's spirit is essentially visual. His artistic conception is expressed by plastic representations, primarily by images and secondary by ideas. Eye and not ear is the central organ, is an expression of how the human being learns of the world and his own. Dostoevsky's art seems mysterious because it uses the resources of images, often charming, and extremely fearful.

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