LEO TOLSTOY AND ENGLISH FAMILY NOVEL: CONTINUITY AND CONTROVERSY. LEO TOLSTOY AND ENGLISH FAMILY NOVEL

In this article the family theme of Tolstoy’s novels is compared with the one of novels of his English contemporary authors. The problems of the novel “Anna Karenina” looks like the problems of the English novels, but is solved quite different. If the heroes of English novels drive from the foreign terrible world to the comfortable home world, then the heroes of Tolstoy novels are attacked by an alien force, destroying their happiness.