THOMAS MANN AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article “Thomas Mann and Russian literature” is dedicated to the interested problem- the attitude of a famous German writer, Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann to the Russian literature and writers. The article discusses such literary-critical articles and essays from the point of literature studies as: “Goethe and Tolstoy”, Apolitical Ideas”, “A word about Chekhov”, “Dostoevsky – only moderately” and so on. The article shows that Thomas Mann paid great attention to the Russian classical literature of the XIXc. appreciated its ethical and philosophical problematic, the richness of ideas, autistics and realism, Among Russian writers he highlighted Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.