War and Peace

See also: War and peace (homonymy)

the War and Peace or War and Paix ( Войнаимир ) is a Romance of Leon Tolstoï. Published between 1865 and 1869, and evoking the history of the Russia at the time of Napoleon (in particular the Napoleonean Wars in Russia). The richness and the realism of its details as its many psychological descriptions make that he is often regarded as a major novel of the history of the literature Tolstoï develops to with it a fatalistic theory of the Histoire, where the free will would have only one minor importance and where all the events would obey only a inescapable Déterminisme historical.

A urban Légende affirms that the real direction of the title would be the War and the World : the words " Peace " and " world " being indeed Homonymous S in Russian, and being written in an identical way since the Russian spelling reform of 1918. However, Tolstoï translated itself the title into French the War and Peace . In fact, Tolstoï tardily found this title by taking as a starting point a work of the theorist anarchistic Socialist French Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( the War and Peace , 1861), which it met with Brussels in 1861, but of which it did not share the ideas.

War and Paix generated a new kind of Fiction. Although today regarded as a Romance , this work broke of so many codes of the Romance of its time that many critical S did not regard it as tel.

War and Paix were at the time of its publication an immense success, although Tolstoï did not expect it. (Tolstoï entrusted to his/her friend Afanasi Fet whom it expected that this work " inaperçue" passes;).

Synopsis

The vastness of work makes it very difficult to summarize in a clear and concise way. Moreover, the author strews his account with many personal reflections which tend to break the rate/rhythm of the reading. The action is spread out of 1805 to 1820, although actually, the essence of the account concentrates at a few key time: the War of the third coalition (1805), the peace of Tilsitt (1807) and finally the Countryside of Russia (1812). One would be wrong, however, to believe that Guerre and Paix treats only Franco-Russian relations of the time. In addition to the battles of Schoengraben, of Austerlitz and Borodino, Tolstoï describes with much care and precision the noble mediums of Russia tsarist, tackling many subjects then in vogue: the question of serfdom, secret societies, and of course the war. The characters of Guerre and Paix are so abundant and richly detailed that it is difficult to find a " there; héros" , nevertheless recurring is doubtless Pierre Bézoukhov.

Main characters

  • Pierre Bézoukhov
  • Natacha Rostova
  • Andre Bolkonski
  • Marie Bolkonski
  • Nicolas Rostov
  • Sophie Rostova
  • Napoleon
  • Koutouzov
  • Helene Kouraguine
  • Anatole Kouraguine

Adaptations

  • 1975 : War and love ( Coils and death ) Film of Woody Allen with Diane Keaton. Ironic adaptation of the novel.

Opera

Cinema

Television

  • 2000 : the War and peace ( War and Peace ) realized by François Roussillon with Robert Brubaker, adaptation of the Novel of Tolstoï.
  • 2007 : War And Peace adaptation of War and Peace in a telefilm in four episodes, coproduite by seven European countries, realized by Robert Dornhelm.

See too

  • ISBN 2-070425177 (Book of pocket, volume 1)
  • ISBN 2-070425185 (Book of pocket, volume 2)
  • ISBN 2-070105636 (the Pleiad)
  • Full text in French on the Ebooks site free and free
  • Full text in French (text and HTML) on the site Gutenberg.org

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