THOMAS MANN AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE

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Irina Jishkariani

Abstract

The article “Thomas Mann and Russian literature” is dedicated to the interested problem- the attitude of a famous German writer, Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann to the Russian literature and writers. The article discusses such literary-critical articles and essays from the point of literature studies as: “Goethe and Tolstoy”, Apolitical Ideas”, “A word about Chekhov”, “Dostoevsky – only moderately” and so on. The article shows that Thomas Mann paid great attention to the Russian classical literature of the XIXc. appreciated its ethical and phi-losophical problematic, the richness of ideas, autistics and realism, Among Russian writers he highlighted Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.

Published: Jan 9, 2014

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Literary paradigms