Re: It's readable, provided you know so little of Russia and its court circles of the time
Werthead Send a noteboard - 27/02/2011 01:04:50 AM
I wonder how he was viewed under Lenin and then Stalin.
AFAIK (been a few years since my Russian history studies), he was seen as a reasonably positive influence, due to his idolization of the peasantry and his apparent dislike of Imperial Russian class systems. That said, he apparently wasn't as widely read as non-Russians might expect. During the Siege of Leningrad in WWII apparently a lot of people read the book for the first time due to a lack of anything else available (War and Peace being apparently on everyone's bookshelf, but very rarely actually being read).
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- 21/02/2011 01:05:49 AM
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Some thoughts on the book
- 21/02/2011 02:49:33 AM
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Translation was by Louise and Aylmer Maude (1920s)
- 21/02/2011 03:11:25 AM
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Without knowing anything about the translation, it already sounds terrible.
- 21/02/2011 05:06:53 AM
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It's readable, provided you know so little of Russia and its court circles of the time
- 21/02/2011 05:34:56 AM
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Re: It's readable, provided you know so little of Russia and its court circles of the time
- 27/02/2011 01:04:50 AM
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I read it when I was 19 (Jesus Christ, that is almost 10 years ago)
- 21/02/2011 01:48:16 PM
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When I first visited wotmania, I was 25. I turn 37 in less than five months 
- 21/02/2011 06:40:07 PM
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- 21/02/2011 06:40:07 PM
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Hey ya know what I read the most unbelievable thing about Tolstoy the other day ...
- 22/02/2011 12:46:37 AM
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