Abstract
Tolstoy was not only an artist. However paradoxical it may seem at first sight, he was at once a great artist and an enemy of art, at least the kind of art which regards itself as justified for its own sake and seeks nothing further than artistic or poetic satisfaction. This emerges most sharply if one compares Tolstoy with Turgenev, and it partly explains why they found so little in common and failed to establish friendly relations in all the thirty years or so that they knew each other. Since they did not speak the same language it was clearly difficult for them to understand each other.
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