Guerra e Pace

Paperback, 1468 pages

Italiano language

Published Jan. 1, 2002 by Rizzoli.

ISBN:
978-88-17-11738-8
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Sullo sfondo di grandi avvenimenti storici, l'invasione della Russia da parte della Grande Armée di Napoleone con la battaglia di Borodino e l'incendio di Mosca, Tolstoj narra le vicende di due nobili famiglie russe, i Bolkonskij e i Rostov, e descrive l'intera società russa, dai ceti più alti ai più umili.

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Guerra e Pace

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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 …

An epic classic

5 stars

For many years, I have been working through a rather long list of literary classics in chronological order of publication. I have reached the late 1800s, and it just so happened that the start of 2021 coincided with La Guerre et la Paix, or War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy. Looking back, it seems like a completely unreasonable project for me to start the year with such a dense classic. This book spans more than 1600 pages and features more than 500 characters. Lockdown life demanded ambitious personal goal-setting, and so I did what I could to stay the course.

Every day, I opened my beautiful green paper edition of this novel and read a few short chapters. War and Peace is the historical and philosophical novel by excellence. It narrates the invasion of Russia by France, and alternates between scenes of military conflict and high society. The complex …

Review of 'War and Peace' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

So, War and Peace. It's a big one, for sure.

But I feel like it's a lot shorter than people think it is. War and Peace has become our archetypal "long book," but it's shorter than Les Miserables (which I read last year) and reads a lot faster. It's a book more on the scale of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is still long, but is also fairly widely read.

With that out of the way, let's get into it.

Russian Names

This is probably a common barrier to people understanding this book and others like it. In my case, I worked my way up to War and Peace by reading some of Dosteovsky's work: The Gambler, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov. At one point when I was reading Brothers K, it just clicked and I started to get how the …

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