When the storm broke, people turned to Tolstoy: "During the war," wrote the critic Lidia Ginzburg, "people devoured War and Peace as a way of measuring their own behavior (about Tolstoy they had no doubt: his response to life was wholly adequate). The reader would say to himself: Well then, so what I am feeling is right: that's just how it should be." War and Peace was the only book the writer Vasili Grossman had time to read while he was a frontline correspondent, and he read it twice. It was broadcast on Moscow Radio, complete, over thirty episodes.
From Moscow 1941 by Rodric Braithwaite. I've never read War and Peace, but now I want to. What are your opinions on the book?
― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)
its deeply wonderful and completely fukken rad
i bought the r+l translation when it came out but just started reading it now ~ about 150 pgs in. his descriptions of ppl keep making me laugh @ odd times
― ₪_₪ (Lamp), Thursday, 23 July 2009 04:43 (sixteen years ago)
i'm 2/3 of the way thru their translation of anna karenina - it's dope
― just sayin, Thursday, 23 July 2009 07:50 (sixteen years ago)