![]() ![]() In particular, Tolstoy took great pleasure in his criticism of canonical interpretations of 1812. Tolstoy explicitly resisted calling his work a novel, despite the fact that it contains novelistic elements, and instead proposed his own sui generis form of historiography that is consciously skeptical of the very concept of historical narrative. ![]() War and Peace is a 1,200-page testament to Tolstoy’s evolving philosophies on history, historiography, and the nature of fate and free will, transmitted through a series of real historical figures from the Napoleonic campaigns of 1812, as well as through fictional characters of his own creation.Īs a work of literature, War and Peace rejects all attempts at defining its genre in the traditional sense of the term. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was, perhaps above all else, a man who loved a hot take. ![]()
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