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…
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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. 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. Gershkovich demonstrates how the authors'
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