Tolstoy War and Peace

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Forster). Tolstoy's translator, Aylmer Maude, wrote “I should like to live my life over again in order to have once again the pleasure of reading <I>War and Peace </I>for the first time.” Spend this winter/spring in your initial or multiple encounter with what many consider the novel's supreme achievement.The class will provide a close reading of Tolstoy's masterpiece in manageable portions, examining the novel from a variety of contexts-critical, biographical, historical, and cultural-to enhance appreciation. We will relate <I>War and Peace </I>and Tolstoy's development as a writer to the development of the European novel and the various influences, from Cervantes to Dickens and Stendhal, on which Tolstoy drew to create his unique version of a narrative epic that subsumed history, fiction, and philosophy into an immense construct that is simultaneously intimate, abstract, and universal.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bookman Old Style" ><B>Before the class commences, students should make an effort to complete an initial reading of the novel, aided by supplied chapter-by-chapter and background notes. </B></FONT></div> <div> <B><U>The class will meet on the following dates 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.:</U></B></div> <div> <B>Tuesday, March 16</B>. To discuss Volume 1 (Pevear's translation) or Books 1-3 (other translations)</div> <div> <B>Tuesday, April 6.</B> To discuss Volumes 2 & 3 (Pevear's translation) or Books 4-11 (other translations)</div> <div> <B>Tuesday, April 27</B>. To discuss Volume 4 and Epilogue (Pevear's translation or Books 12-15 & Epilogues (other translations)</div> <div> <B>                                Instructor Daniel Burt </B>(B.A. Colgate University; M.A., Ph.D. New YorkUniversity) is a professor, writer, and editor. He writes about 19th- and 20th-century literature, and he has written on Tolstoy in his books, <I>The Literary 100, The Novel 100, </I>and <I>The Biography Book. </I></div> <div> Cost: $75.00 <I>Preregistration required </I></div> <div> <I><U>Minimum of 20 Participants for Class to be held</U></I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>