GUERRA Y PAZ (Clasicos) (Spanish Edition)
by Lev Tolstói
Category: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

Obra cumbre de Lev Tolst�i (junto a Anna Kar�nina) y de la narrativa del XIX, Guerra y paz constituye un vasto fresco hist�rico y �pico. Con la campa�a napole�nica -Austerlitz, Borodin� o el incendio de Mosc�- como trasfondo, se narra la historia de dos familias de la nobleza rusa, los Bolkonski y los Rostov, protagonistas de un mundo que empieza a escenificar su propia desaparici�n. Hasta hace pocos a�os, todas las traducciones de Guerra y paz se basaban en la edici�n can�nica de 1873. Sin embargo, en 1983, la Academia Sovi�tica de Ciencias public� lo que ellos llamaron la �edici�n original�, es decir, la primera versi�n que Tolst�i escribi� en 1866. Es la espl�ndida traducci�n de ese manuscrito original, de la mano de Gala Arias Rubio, la que publicamos en este volumen. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds--peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers--as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving--and human--figures in world literature.