Reception of N. S. Leskov's Religious and Philosophical Worldview in English-speaking Critic

Abstract

The monograph of American researcher Irmhild Christina Sperrle ‘The organic worldview of Nikolai Leskov’ focuses on the philosophical foundations of the writer's worldview. The aim of this article is to clarify religious and philosophical aspects of literary works of the writer, which allows obtaining a complete picture of the Leskov's work as an integral literary system. Journalistic and artistic creativity of the writer contains a wealth of material to prove the thesis of organicity in Leskov's worldview. In our article we focus on the concept of organic integrity and its realization on the stylistic level of Leskov's journalistic texts.