Title: Steiner's most accessible and inspiring work
Product review: George Steiner defines this work as a work in the 'Old Criticism'. By this he means it is inspired by admiration for the works. And it has a sense of the works as contributing to one's overall political, historical and literary sense of the world. This as opposed to a New Criticism which would concentrate on a close reading of the text in and by itself.Steiner's subjects here are the two giants of Russian literature, who Steiner considers in a way the greatest of novelists. The vast epical world of Tolstoy the master of depicting the great sweep of life, and the more tormented inner worlds of the master Dostoevsky are connected here with their great predecessors in world- literature.This is an inspiring piece of Literary Criticism, the kind one reads as if it were a continuation of the work being criticized, a literary work of distinction in itself.
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