![]() ![]() Tolstoi is more plastical, and certainly as deep and original and rich in creative power as Turgenev, and Dostoevsky is more intense, fervid, and dramatic. ![]() As regards his method of dealing with his material and shaping it into mould, he stands even higher than as a pure creator. In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our times: ‘The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stand more than any other man as the incarnation of the whole race,’ because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it was ‘an honour to have been expressed by so great a Master’. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. ![]() Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. ![]()
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