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Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace

Tolstoy and the Genesis of War and Peace

Feuer, Kathryn B.
Orwin, Donna Tussing
Miller, Robin Feuer

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Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismRussian History

ISBN10: 0801419026
ISBN13: 9780801419027
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 14 1996
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

The best thing ever done on how Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Feuer shows us an incredible complexity in terms of the creative process. You see the seams and joints in the novel.--Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern UniversityIn 1963, Kathryn B. Feuer had access to the manuscripts of the drafts for the novel, almost 4,000 pages. At Tolstoy's home, she concentrated on a dozen books that related to his earlier conceptions of War and Peace. She was indefatigable, with every detail at her fingertips, and she could express fine perceptions with something of the lucidity and measure of her admired Jane Austen.... Her daughter and Donna Tussing Orwin completed their task of editing in such a way that the book everywhere shows that concern with thoroughly tested evidence that above all makes it a landmark in Tolstoy studies.--Times Literary SupplementThe effectiveness of Feuer's account of the creation of War and Peace results from her remarkably cogent and uncluttered reading of the drafts and revisions that inform the description of Tolstoy's creative process. Tolstoy and the Genesis of 'War and Peace' is destined to remain a classic on the subject.--Slavic ReviewYoung novelists who listen to their creative writing teachers would be better served reading Feuer's brilliant study of the creation of War and Peace.--Common KnowledgeKathryn B. Feuer offers remarkable insights into Leo Tolstoy's creative process while he wrote War and Peace. She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, illuminating its connection to earlier, unpublished, novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian. A novelist herself, Feuer explores the problems of character development, narrative voice, genre, and structure that Tolstoy ultimately resolved so brilliantly.

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