When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia

Abstract

previously mentioned. Apart from this elision, however, Berman’s work is thorough, and the book leaves us with a number of different places to take her research further. She has clearly identified an omission in the critical landscape of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and filled in the gaps with a commendably exhaustive investigation. The development Berman traces through Tolstoy’s trilogy, and from Dostoevsky’s earlier to his later works is clearly defined and convincingly articulated. Reading these works through the lens of siblinghood is indeed more fertile ground than had previously been recognized.