Reading Comprehension (RC) | During Dostoyevskys time there were two significant and opposing dire

[align=justify][box_out][box_in] During Dostoyevsky’s time there were two
significant and opposing directions in Russian literary
criticism. One position maintained that art stood high
above the present and the everyday, while theradical
(5) view maintained that art had a right to exist only if it
found its sources in concrete reality, and, through the
exposure of want and injustice, it contributed to the
creation of a new society; literature, in other words,
should be useful. Dostoyevsky took a thirdposition.

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