1/1/2024 0 Comments Instal War and Peace![]() ![]() ![]() Don’t expect to be able to predict what happens. The book will try to understand why people behave as they do, and it may make the best case possible for some strange actions, but it won’t make apologies for anyone and won’t pass a final judgment. It understands and sympathises with those ideas but it excuses itself from repeating them. ![]() It forgives ideas of heroism, most beautifully in the last words any character speaks in the book, as Andrei’s son thinks of his father at the end of the First Epilogue. Andrei Bolkonsky is not Tolstoy’s hero, and Natasha is not a romantic heroine. This is the story of a group of people living within a society. The miracle of the book is that the Natasha who falls in love with anyone and everyone in the ballrooms of the opening is recognisably the same woman who withdraws from society at the end.Ģ There is no hero and no heroine. The characters in War and Peace endure extreme experiences, and emerge at the end as quite different people. ![]()
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