tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116322554034557310.post63108481071413064..comments2023-05-05T08:05:33.639-04:00Comments on Ravenskya's Reviews: War and Peace - Leo TolstoyRavenskyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12592634587319337560noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116322554034557310.post-27911966575853339652009-02-25T15:31:00.000-05:002009-02-25T15:31:00.000-05:00I'm impressed. I have neither the time nor the in...I'm impressed. I have neither the time nor the inclination to wade through such a monster. I am impressed by and respectful of those that do. Kudos to you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03123312284398478564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116322554034557310.post-33101514545090692502009-02-01T20:59:00.000-05:002009-02-01T20:59:00.000-05:00The theme seems to run along the lines of a critca...The theme seems to run along the lines of a critcal look at the Russian government, upper class, and the military leaders of the time. I belive that the blah ending was meant to show the futility of the priorities of the upper class and their in ability to acheive true happiness.Ravenskyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12592634587319337560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116322554034557310.post-33442500160647948682009-01-31T00:37:00.000-05:002009-01-31T00:37:00.000-05:00What’s your impression about Tolstoy’s intentioned...What’s your impression about Tolstoy’s intentioned theme, if any, having faced the kind of finale you read and evaluated as, well, uncanny languor(?) at the end—I am not sure if it’s quite what you’d rather describe it to be—after the relentless drive around the bloody war and tangled romance and its no-end close? Judging from your comments, it looks that ever present apathy of reality only got a due spotlight in his story after all. What exactly do you think or surmise that Tolstoy were trying to tell through the story? Or he simply ever failed in finding a probable theme of his own or distinct idea at the end of the story? Or he just lost himself in it? Curious....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116322554034557310.post-47389097932008722412009-01-30T08:10:00.000-05:002009-01-30T08:10:00.000-05:00I don't know that I'd call it a happy or sad endin...I don't know that I'd call it a happy or sad ending... the ending was just sort of blah, sure a few people got married and had kids, but they weren't shown to be overly happy and the reader is left feeling that there will be little love in their lives.Ravenskyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12592634587319337560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116322554034557310.post-1364712013480402522009-01-29T23:41:00.000-05:002009-01-29T23:41:00.000-05:00War and peace. Daunting. That’s the gist of it. I ...War and peace. Daunting. That’s the gist of it. I don’t know I really want to read it. Being so famous a book, if I left it out, it looks like literary ignorance, isn’t it? But I doubt if I have sufficient passion to drive into that long and tiredly interwoven threads of epic which you labored it through. Great, though, for you to finish it. Clap, clap… I am sure Tolstoy is a great writer like Victor Hugo, and I believe that the literary power of that novel, similar to Hugo’s to me, wouldn’t diminish even after the process of translation to English, so huge in scale as to transcend possible linguistic barriers. But is it happy ending? Just being curious. Well, I guess not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com