Slavic R5B, sec.

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This tension leads to an inevitable opposition: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky?1

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Steiners classic Tolstoy or Dostoevsky epitomizes this question.

For Raskolnikov, Siberia represents the promised land (Steiner 93).

Paraphrase: Steiner points out that Dostoevsky is considerably easier to adapt for the stage (140-1).
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For Raskolnikov, Siberia represents the promised land, but Dostoevsky gives the reader only a
momentary, shadowy glimpse (Steiner 93).

Works Cited
Steiner, George. Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 1996. Second edition. (First edition: London, 1956.)