Thanks to British narrator Frederick Davidson's performance, it is safe to say that there will not be a better recording of Tolstoy's masterpiece for some time. The heart of this drama is the metamorphosis of five familiesAsome peasant, some aristocraticAamid the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Each individual is immersed in experiences and conversations elucidating Tolstoy's themes of self-sacrifice and self-indulgence, anguish and ecstasy, diplomacy and deception, and religion and perdition. The complexities of character and plot are sometimes enigmatic, and names are often exhausting to recollect, but the genius of this book is everlasting. The impressive dialog sparkles with humor and wit, and the vivid scenes of battle are riveting. An entire universe is created by one of the foremost thinkers of the 19th century, and Davidson's exquisite narration heightens the perfection of this novel, regarded as one of the greatest in literature. Highly recommended for all collections.ABarbara Mann, Adelphi Univ., Garden City, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
作者简介:
GEORGE C, IBIAN was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His honors included Fulbright, Guggenheim, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He is the author of The Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd, The Interval of Freedom: Russian Literature during the Thaw, and Tolstoi and Shakespeare. He is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and of The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Professor Gibian's articles appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday, among others.
【目录】
Preface
The Text of War and Peace
Backgrounds and Sources
Map: The Campaign of 1812
Map: Borodin6
Map: Napoleon in Russia--1812
The Publication History of War and Peace
The Author on the Novel
Extracts from Tolstoy's Letters and Diaries (1865-1868)
[Letter to A. A. Fet--January, 1865]
[Diary--March 2, 1865]
[Diary--March 19, 1865]
[Dial--March 23, 1865]
[Diary--March 28, 1865]
[Letter to L. I. Volkonskaya--May 3, 1865]
[Letter to P. D. Boborykin--July or August, 1865]
ILetter to A. E. Bets--November, 1865]
IDiary--November 12, 1865]
[Letters to M. S. Bashilov--April 4 and December 8, 1866 February 28, 1867]
[Letter to A. A. Fet--November 7, 1866]
[Entry ill Tolstoy's Notebook--November 27, 1866]
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--August 16-18, 1867]
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--November 1, 18671
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--December 6, 1867]
[Letter to P. I. Bartenev--December 8, 18671
[Letter to M. P. Pogodin--March 21 or 23, 1868]
Drafts for an Introduction to War and Peace
[Draft 1]
[Draft 2]
[Draft 3]
Some Words about War and Peace
Criticism
Dmitri Pisarev·The Old Gentry
Nikolai Strakhov·/The Significance of the Last Part of War and Peace]
IThe Russian Idea ill War and Peace]
Ivan Turgenev·Comments on War and Peace
Constantine Leontiev·IThe Greatness and Universality of War and Peace]
V. I. Lenin·Leo Tolstoy as a Mirror of the Russian Revolutio
Henry James·[Loose Baggy Monsters]
·IA Monster Harnessed]
Victor Shklovsky·]Details in War and Peace]
Boris Eikhenbaum·[The Genre of War and Peace in the Context of Russian Literary History]
·[Tolstoy's Essays as an Element of Structure[
Isaiah Berlin·[Tolstoy's Attitude Towards History in War and Peace[
·[Tolstoy's Worldview in War and Peace]
Dmitry S. Mirsky·About Tolstoy
·[On Tolstoy: Materialism, Spiritualism, and Russianness]
Kathryn Feuer·The Book That Became War and Peace
Richard F. Gustafson·States of Human Awareness
Gary Saul Morson·[Narrative and Creative Potentials in War and Peace]
Caryl Emerson·[Where Bakhtin Misses the Mark on Tolstoy]
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