Л.Н. Толстой и В.В. Розанов: две исповеди

Гуманитарные исследования в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке. 2021. Т. 57. № 3. С. 57–62.

Klimova S.

The article compares two literary texts of confessions – by leo Tolstoy and
Vasily rozanov. The author takes into account the change of literary styles,
associated with the transition from Tolstoy’s realism to the modernism reflected
in rozanov’s «fallen leaves». Tolstoy’s confessionalism, created in line with
the tradition of Augustine and rousseau, becomes the catalyst for the new
forms of confession reflected in the ironic philosophy of rozanov. The text
by Tolstoy is a confession of the autonomous self, who strives to overcome
his carnal beginning on the way to the spiritualization of the personality. The
latter is achieved by estrangement from his social circle, his profession as a
writer, his family, that is, from himself for the sake of spiritual salvation. This
way is about returning to Christ as a bastion of love and non-resistance to evil,
as well as establishing a loving spiritual connection with the world of others.
rozanov’s confession is different: it is possible only in the form of an initial
unity of the Self with Others: with the world of his family, his wife, friends,
readers, and even with the world of things around him. What Tolstoy separates
in man and the world – the carnal and the spiritual – rozanov sees as initially
united in any phenomenon. The comparison of two confessions allows us to
demonstrate a number of fundamental shifts in philosophy and literature in the
early xxth century
 

Keywords: personality psychology, остранение, исповедь, confession, defamiliarization, личная ответственность