Reading 'War and Peace'

Ridley Scott's Napoleon, and Tolstoy's

"Scott’s omissions are more mindless than driven by any desire to provide an easy portrait of unmitigated greatness."

Jul 21 •

Midway through 'War and Peace'

Hair 'á la grecque', men with personalities wrapped in professions, and the modalities of boredom apropos fiction

Jul 1 •

Month #4 of 'War and Peace'

On money in novels, the impossibility of speedy emancipation, and homecomings

Apr 30 •

Month #3 of 'War and Peace'

On the relationship between the Tolstoyan character and the Tolstoyan chapter

Mar 31 •

Month #2 of 'War and Peace'

On Pamuk and Tolstoy, the sunbeam following sovereigns, gibberish at the frontlines, and a poem

Feb 29 •

Month #1 of 'War and Peace'

Notes and observations from a slow-reading, communal experience, conducted superbly by Simon Haisell

Jan 31 •

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