[saberience]

I don’t think you can objectively say Tolstoy was a worse literary artist than Dostoyevsky.

For me it’s absolutely the other way around. Dostoyevsky saw into men’s souls in a way no other writer perhaps barring Shakespeare could. Tolstoy for me is more mechanically or technically good, but Dostoyevsky was a true artist and saw through life and humanity at another level.

[wholinator2]

That's what they said

> But Tolstoy was an infinitely better literary artist than Dostoevsky could ever hope to be.

[dmvdoug]

Right. Dostoevsky was perfect on the human element. Tolstoy on the writing.