Earwitness
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2019

Tapp’s chapter considers one of the Crimean War’s most celebrated literary productions, Leo Tolstoy’s <italic>Sevastopol Stories</italic>. Through comparison with Virginia Woolf and her innovative narrative technique, it discusses the workings of wartime sound in Tolstoy’s famous text. In particular, it elucidates the representation of battlefield noise, whose valence changes as it approaches the war zone. In Tolstoy’s <italic>Stories</italic> sound becomes a cipher for unmediated reality and ul