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# "I am inclined to think that Tolstoy must be placed beside Shakespeare: his art is not art in the manner of Turgenev, Shakespeare or Maupassant, it is something new, and it creates deeper qualities of self-awareness and analysis"
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- Published: 2021-03-11T11:37:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:41:26.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Books

The Nobel laureate in literature John Galsworthy, in a letter to the English translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, who first introduced the English-speaking public to the texts of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov