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Mother's Death: A Turning Point in the Lives of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Lev Tolstoy's Nikolay Irtenev
2022
Although it is not possible to establish exactly when Lev Tolstoy started reading Charles Dickens, it was in the 1850s, he was reading David Copperfield, which was one of his most favourite novels by the English writer. David Copperfield is probabiy the most popular of all Dickens’s novels, and it is certainly the most autobiographical. The tendency to combine personal with general in an ambiguous generic package was also present from the beginning of Tolstoy’s career. His Childhood can be described as a pseudo-autobiography that imitates autobiography in all aspects, except one: its author and narrator are not the same person. A strong mother-son relationship is clearly visible in David Co…