War and Peace Novel Review

An anonymous Birzhevy Vestnik reviewer, Nikolai Leskov wrote a few essays praising war and peace and called it "Russia's best historical novel" and "the pride of contemporary literature." Nikolai Strahov was the first critic in Russia to declare Tolstoy's novel as a masterpiece, a level previously unknown in Russian literature. In an 1880 article written by Ivan Turgenev in a letter to Edmond Abou, editor of the French newspaper Le Xixe Siecle, he described Tolstoy as "a famous Russian writer" and the book "one of the most remarkable books of our time".

War and Peace can therefore be called a visual history essay instead of a novel because there is no sense of structure and characters who serve to develop rather than to promote social events. The characters described by Tolstoy, unlike other Russian writers such as Dostoyevsky, are ordinary. The difference of opinion about Tolstoy's importance is that he is the author of a book that can be read in Russian for more than twice as long.

The characters in the book are different and express the different ideas Tolstoy tried to incorporate into his narrative. Most of us tend to be normal and stable in terms of Russian statistics, so it is easy for many to identify characters like Natasha Rostov and Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace, or Underground Man in Dostoevsky's Underground Notes. But in all of this, the novel gives the author space to develop a character who has never been seen before.

Anthony Briggs' best translation includes Polstoy's fidelity, accessible prose, and the word followed by Orlando Figes's, which describes the breadth and depth of the novel "Russian Identity. By the nineteenth century, Russia has become a landmark in human life in all its imperfections and greatness.

This type includes an appendix with notes, a list of outstanding characters, and a map. Leo Tolstoy, a real Russian, a Christian anarchist, and father who won 14 Nobel laureates, was born 191 years ago today, and his major work in War and Peace turns 150 this year. One hundred and a half years after its first publication, this mixture of 1,200 pages of history, research, and philosophical tales recounting the French invasion of Russia, the influence of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, and the history of five noble families are considered one of the greatest literary works ever written.

When Tolstoy's great Russian novel was first published during the Napoleonic War in 1869, people wondered what kind of it was. A historical novel in which the story is just part of the background and part of the novel. Certain war events are highlighted by the participation of the main characters Andrei Bolkonsky, Nikolai Rostov, and Pierre Bezoukhov.

Many of the poems used in war and peace are slightly different from the real names Tolstoy encountered in his life - a deliberate strategy aimed at making the book seem familiar to Russian readers. In Russian, the title of the book Voina Mir means War and Peace, meaning the War Society and the Peace Society, which are homonyms in Russian. My favorite character in this book is not the protagonist, but the bastard Kutuzov Dolohov.

But Bolkonsky is not Tolstoy's hero, and Natasha, who falls into the balloon during the opening, is not a lovable heroine. One of the many reasons I liked the version of The Last Station's film, which focuses on Tolstoy's final year of life, is the way Tolstoy struggles to control his personality. War and Peace express Tolstoy's view of history as an unstoppable process, a man who is not only influenced by himself but by his five hundred characters.

Tolstoy sets out major themes such as conflict, love, birth, death, freedom of choice, destiny, and unforgettable scenes from both countries as the glorious glory of human life in all its imperfections and greatness in the War and Peace (1863-189). Tolstoy's great Russian novel during the Napoleonic War has been modified many times, but the difficulty of capturing and performing the essentials is far greater. At a luxury party in St. In St. Petersburg in 1805, the talk was governed by the prospect of war.

When Tolstoy started to write, he took so much time away from the Napoleonic Wars that he decided to focus only on it. To mimic the story with this scale and detail, he had to do a great deal beyond the modern novel of history. Like Leo, he visited battlefields and read history books about wars, drawing real historical events to create a dynamic study of Russian society in the early nineteenth century, known for his handling of factual information and various psychological analyzes.

These are just a few facts about Leo Tolstoy and his struggle to bring War and Peace to life, which has left a lasting impression on his heroic novel, with hundreds of bullets, numerous architectural lines, and war sequences in more than 20 chapters across Russia. The first book investigates a group of military officers known as the Decembrists and who live with the development of the concept of Napoleonic wars. When Tolstoy wrote, revived, and developed the novel into what we know today, it happened more than a decade after the "Decembrist Movement."

His diaries were for self-study and self-criticism from 1847 onwards and served as a source where he found much of the content found in his great novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) but also his short work. Leo Tolstoy was disappointed with the story and the development of its characters, as well as his sensitivity as an artist, ended the novel. If you are interested in this a bit, it is because you will find that illegal desires will change as you read and that 20 or 50% of the novel is a product of the great spirit, who by his death, lost interest in war and peace.