商品簡介
Scholars of literature offer insights into Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's (1828-1910) seminal War and Peace. Among their topics are Tolstoy's dialogue with his readers, Tolstoy's biography and auto-genealogy, the meaning of serfdom, human nature in Tolstoy's epic, foreign influences and domestic concerns, benevolence on the battlefield, the poetic nature of War and Peace, Tolstoy's connection-versus-separation paradigm, Pierre and familyhood, orthodox spirituality and women's virtue, Sonya's inevitable loss, trembling Napoleon and fat Kutuzov, and the philosophy of history. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
