Zagadka Tolstoevskogo - Baiiar P'er

A new book by a French writer known to the Russian reader thanks to a number of bestsellers: "The art of talking about books you haven't read," "Titanic will sink," "The Case of the Dog of the Baskervilles," "The Art of Talking About Countries You Haven't Been." In every great writer there is a riddle, which in many ways makes his works so attractive to readers for centuries. And Lev-Fedor Tolstovsky is a prime example of this. Both his own personality and the characters he has derived are full of contradictions. The writer who created a series of novels so dissimilar to each other - "Anna Karenina" and "Crime and Punishment," "The Brothers Karamazov" and "War and Peace" - Tolstoevsky is often perceived by us as two different authors. However, Pierre Bayar - a French philologist and psychoanalyst - brilliantly shows that in fact we are talking about one novelist, whose consciousness is inhabited by many personalities. And those are his characters. Analyzing the details...