• Russian Language and Literature
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• no.65
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• pp.109-128
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• 2019

The purpose of this paper is to compare the empathy of Dostoevsky 's novel 『Idiot』 and Tolstoy' s novel 『Resurrection』. The empathy can be seen not only in the emotional dimension, but also in the cognitive and the will dimension. Myshkin was emotional, lacking reflection and moral standards. He sympathized with almost all characters, but his empathy could not stop heroine's death. On the other hand, the empathy of Nekhliudov and Katiusha is not limited to the relationship of two people and it is gradually expanded by sympathy with others. His empathy develops with compassion and love for others through reflection on oneself. Thus, while the empathy of Myshkin is a passive level of empathy, Nekhliudov's empathy is an active level of empathy

• Russian Language and Literature
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• no.60
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• pp.135-160
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• 2018

This paper is focused on the sympathy in Dostoevsky's and Tolstoy's poetics. For Dostoevsky, sympathy is based on the social dimension, which is connected with his experience. Though the writer may have thought of the many prisoners he met in Siberian as his own and others, he saw in them the 'Marey' that he had met in his childhood, and the spirituality that lies within Marey is no different from his faith. In other words, Dostoevsky discovered that they also have faith in common and that it is the main code of understanding them and a link that can be one with them. It differs from the intellectuals of the time in which the writer lived, in order to approach the people, in the sense of reason, logic, or any justification. For Tolstoy, on the other hand, sympathy can be considered in terms of morality and practice. Tolstoy's sympathy extends from the individual to the social level, whereas Dostoevsky's sympathy moves from the social dimension to the individual dimension. Through his personal experience and enlightenment, he emphasizes sympathy in the process of practicing what he realizes in society. In other words, after sympathy, he tried to practice his sympathy and realization. It was not for the Russian people or the Slavs, but for the whole human race. In this sense, Tolstoy tried to overcome the partiality of empathy and tried to obtain universality of sympathy. In particular, Tolstoy emphasizes that patriotism is an example of bias in empathy and should be guarded.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.45
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• pp.167-194
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• 2016

V.V. Rozanov, a well-known writer and thinker, has wrote many critical essays about Russian literature and writers. The most famous literary criticism written by him is an essay about F. Dostoevsky - Legend of the Grand Inquisitor (1894), which has been highly appraised by N. Berdyaev. If Dostoevsky was the best and the most admirable writer by Rozanov, Gogol was one of the most condemned one by him. This paper, first of all, aims to analyze Rozanov's literary essays about Gogol. At this time, our subjects of analysis included writer's critical essays about Pushkin and Dostoevsky because Rozanov tried to investigate the nature of a creation of Gogol through comparative studies. Based on these analyses, we attempted to deduce an overall view of Rozanov about Russian literature. We also examined the influence of Rozanov on the later criticism.