Tolstoy and the genesis of "War and Peace"
By: Kathryn B. Feuer ; edited by Robin Feuer Miller and Donna Tussing Orwin.
Contributors: Miller, Robin Feuer, 1947-; Orwin, Donna Tussing, 1947-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
Description: Kathryn 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 She follows the novel through countless drafts and notes, and illuminates its connection to earlier, unpublished novels and to crucial new sources, both European and Russian. Additionally, Feuer locates Tolstoy within the intellectual debates of his time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-284) and index.