title: Introduction: Before They Were Titans
abstract: the short stories, plays, and one novel of Nikolai Gogol; the novels of Ivan Turgenev and Ivan Goncharov; and hundreds of stories and sketches by Anton Chekhov.However extraordinary many of those works are-and however many excellent second-and third-tier authors of nineteenthcentury Russia there were-they would not elevate Russian literature to rank among the handful of the world's preeminent literary traditions.The great works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy do that almost by themselves.Sy
journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks