How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy

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This book was published with the support of a publication assistance grant from Wesleyan University. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 2008 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meyer, Priscilla. How the Russians read the French : Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy / Priscilla Meyer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-22930-6 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Russian literature—19th century—French influences. 2. Lermontov, Mikhail IUr’evich, 1814–1841—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881—Criticism and interpretation. 4. Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich, graf, 1883–1945—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PG2981.F5M49 2008 891.73´3—dc22 2008012316 for bill . . . a (scholarly!) study of how writers (Schiller, George Sand) influenced Russia and to what extent would be an extraordinary and serious undertaking . . . the history of the reincarnation of an idea into another idea. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1876 ...