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 m

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.