This author argued against aesthetics and for an art that infects the soul with "sympathetic feeling" in a work that denounced Shakespeare and Homer c
This author argued against aesthetics and for an art that infects the soul with "sympathetic feeling" in a work that denounced Shakespeare and Homer called What Is Art? The servant Gerasim provides the sole comfort to the titular petty magistrate during his dying days in a novella by this author. Pierre is captured by the French after the Battle of Borodino in which his friend Andre is mortally wounded in a major novel by this author, who also contrasted the ethical dimension of the love of Levin and Kitty with that of Vronsky and the title character in another novel. FTP, name this Russian author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
This author argued against aesthetics and for an art that infects the soul with "sympathetic feeling" in a work that denounced Shakespeare and Homer called What Is Art?
Leo (or Lev) Tolstoy