Tolstoy's Insights and Tolstoy's Novels

Author: Li Zhengrong
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: After reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Tolstoy was amazed by Kant's ability to discover long-neglected great secrets in what people take for granted and consider unquestionable. He therefore praised Critique of Pure Reason as the "peak of all of Kant's profound rational activity" ①. This statement also applies to Tolstoy himself, and to some extent, to the vast body of research literature on him. Throughout his life, Tolstoy demanded that he write simply and clearly, faithfully and authentically, according to the true nature of life. Most researchers also regard his simplicity and clarity as the most obvious feature of Tolstoy's artistic world, treating it as the natural prerequisite for a great writer to exist and no longer questioning it.