The question of ‘Tolstoy or Dostoevsky’ roused an echo in East Asian nations which were probing a new direction for literature and society under the great influence of Russian literature.
The question of ‘Tolstoy or Dostoevsky’ roused an echo in East Asian nations which were probing a new direction for literature and society under the great influence of Russian literature. In Korea the cases of Kim Dongin, Yeom Sang-seop, and other young writers of the 1930s show how the dual question of ‘Tolstoy or Dostoevsky’ was engaged in the literary scene as a rhetorical strategy for the artistic and ideological arguments of the time.