Biblical quotes in the late works of L.N. Tolstoy

Abstract

In the article, on the basis of various approaches to the study of quotations, the author reveals the general property of the quoted text, and also specifies the specifics of citation in the artistic text. The material of L.N. Tolstoy’s late works reveals the peculiarities of citing biblical texts, which constitute the main body of the quoted texts in the writer's works. The author adheres to a broad understanding of the quote, in which a pretext fragment reproduced in the donor text with a varying degree of accuracy can be considered a quote. In
this case, an indication of the source of borrowing is not mandatory. Based on these two indicators, the article analyzes biblical quotes in the late works of L.N. Tolstoy, among which stand out accurate and inaccurate quotes, allusions. At the same time, the first two types can be accompanied by various types of attribution: an indication of a specific chapter and verse of the Gospel, the very name of the book or its part, the author of the quoted words, as well as the perivative mention of the source. The author concludes that the quotes are multifunctional.