Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds Gershkovich Tatyana
Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds Gershkovich Tatyana Leo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition--that…
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Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds Gershkovich Tatyana
Leo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition--that approaching a text skeptically is easy, but trusting it is hardTwo figures central to the Russian literary tradition--Tolstoy, the moralist, and Nabokov, the aesthete--seem to have sharply conflicting ideas about the purpose of literature. Gershkovich demonstrates how the authors' Tatyana Gershkovich undermines this familiar opposition by identifying a shared fear at the root of their seemingly antithetical aesthetics: that one's experience of the world might be entirely one's own, private and impossible to share through art.Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other Minds reconceives the pair's celebrated fiction and contentious theorizing as coherent, lifelong efforts to reckon with the problem of other people's minds.