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Indlæser... Krig og fred (1868)af Leo Tolstoy
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( ![]() There is a reason certain books live forever. They are simply too great to disappear. I would put WAR AND PEACE in that category. The lives of a score or more of the Russian aristocracy are counterpointed against the horrors of the wars against Napoleon's invading French armies, and author Leo Tolstoy manages to make every one of those lives and those horrors indelible. Some 564,000 words, 1,100 pages, the book is not for the faint of heart, neither in its size and scope nor in the complexity of the characters, attitudes, and interrelationships. While the intricacies of life among the Russian upper classes was fascinating and palpably real, what I found most intriguing were Tolstoy's frequent forays into the nature and contradictions of how history views something as epic as the Napoleonic wars. These mini-lectures are wonderful, humorous, often sarcastic lessons in how history is not at all shaped the way most historians think it is, and how most conclusions about how events came to be are speculative at best and erroneous almost without exception. This is a massive work that takes devotion to read. How Tolstoy or anyone could write such a novel (leaving alone the fact that he rewrote it nine times!) is almost beyond comprehension. That it is so good is miraculous. Puoi trovare questa recensione anche sul mio blog, La siepe di more Ci sono due elementi che mi impediscono di amare alla follia Guerra e pace: il primo riguarda i personaggi, mentre il secondo ha a che fare con le idee di Tolstoj (e non solo perché ha scritto tipo duecento pagine su quanto fosse detestabile Napoleone: avremmo capito anche con meno pagine che non lo sopportava, ecco). Sul primo punto, devo dire di essere una lettrice in cerca di personaggi ribelli: leggermi millequattrocento pagine di gente che si fa milioni di problemi nel cercare di aderire all’ideale che in quel momento le sembra il paradigma al quale aspirare mi ha fatto venire il latte alle ginocchia. Tra Pierre e Bolkonskij non so chi avrei strozzato più volentieri (e mi fa molto ridere il fatto che nell’introduzione alla mia edizione si affermi che Pierre è il personaggio che più di tutti attira le simpatie dellǝ lettorǝ). Sulle idee di Tolstoj – manco a dirlo – ho trovato insopportabile, e a tratti addirittura ridicolo, il determinismo che permea Guerra e pace. Voglio dire, Pierre non ha sposato Hélène perché era scritto che doveva andare così; l’ha sposata perché è un coglione che dovrebbe smettere di usare il destino come scusa per giustificare qualunque bischerata gli capiti di fare. In secondo luogo, la concezione delle donne di Tolstoj è terrificante. Lo so che è un romanzo dell’Ottocento e badabim e badabam, ma a volte la ragione non è sufficiente a farti passare il fastidio provato davanti a ciò che stai leggendo. Penso che il personaggio che ha attirato di più la mia simpatia sia Natasha: prima con la faccenda con Bolkonskij, che mi è sembrata molto surreale; poi con l’uomo che finisce per sposare – mamma mia, che tristezza. Eppure, nonostante tutto questo, ho macinato pagine su pagine di Guerra e pace senza particolari difficoltà perché la capacità di Tolstoj di caratterizzare i suoi personaggi è tale da far passare in secondo piano ogni discrepanza e da farteli ricordare anche se sono una miriade. Quindi il mio consiglio è di leggerlo, senza paura per la mole (Tolstoj scorre come l’acqua) e senza temere i pippotti su Napoleone (che a una certa sembrano mattonate sulle dita dei piedi, ma poi finiscono, dai). i can't finish a book this year for the life of me War and Peace is a novel about the Napoleon invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three different characters. One of the characters is Pierre Bezukhov the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance. Another character is Prince Andrei Bolkonsky who leaves his family behind to join the fight against Napoleon's invasion. The final main character of the novel is Natasha Rostov the main love interest of both men. The novel follows different points of view on Napoleons invasion and how it affects everyone regardless of class. This novel shows how everyone struggles with problems unqiue to their time, place and cultures.
The title Tolstoy finally settled on was taken from the political theorist Pierre-Joseph Proudhorn's book La Guerre et L Paix (1861) a title which means what it says and no more. But when Tolstoy completed and published the final version of his novel Voyna i mir in 1869, the word mir carried a number of connotations and meanings, including a slightly obsolete one referring to society, mankind. In this case the word could mean, roughly speaking, humanity. Tolstoy's novel is concerned not merely with war and the cessation of war, it is about human beings, for whom war is a vast muddle, which is the curse of society. It is about the triumph of the human spirit in time of war; and the side that wins the war is the side that displays the stronger spirit. Natasha's dance and Andrey's sudden understanding of what matters are triumphant leaps of the human spirit; each results in an inner joy, a peace. The novel is not just a masterclass in fiction, Ms Li believes, but a remedy for distress. At the most difficult times in her life, she says, she has turned to it again and again, reassured by its “solidity” in the face of uncertainty. I had it on my desk for about a year, and now I've given up and put it back on the shelf. Tolstoy’s singular genius is to be able to take the torrent of conscious experience and master it. There are countless moments in the book where this happens ... Tilhører Forlagsserien — 20 mere Great Books of the Western World (Volume 51) Modern Library Giant (G1) La nostra biblioteca Edipem (65-66-67) Os Grandes Romances Históricos (21-24) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2016) Indeholdt iGreat Books Of The Western World - 54 Volume Set, Incl. 10 Vols of Great Ideas Program & 10 Volumes Gateway To Great Books af Robert Maynard Hutchins (indirekte) GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD--54 Volumes 27 volumes 1961-1987 GREAT IDEAS TODAY (Yearbooks) 10 volumes GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS 10 volumes GREAT IDEAS PROGRAM. Total 101 Volumes. af Robert Maynard Hutchins (indirekte) I capolavori (Anna Karenina - Guerra e pace - La morte di Ivan Il'ič- Resurrezione - La sonata a Kreutzer e altri racconti) (Italian Edition) af Lev Tolstoj International Collector's Library Classics 19 volumes: Crime & Punishment; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Mysterious Island; Magic Mountain; Around the World in 80 Days; Count of Monte Cristo; Camille; Quo Vadis; Hunchback of Notre Dame; Nana; Scaramouche; Pinocchio; Fernande; War and Peace; The Egyptian; From the Earth to the Moon; Candide; Treasure of Sierra Madre; Siddhartha/Steppenwolf af Jules Verne IndeholderHar tilpasningenEr forkortet iHas as a supplementHar kommentartekstIndeholder elevguideHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
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