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osprey_archer) wrote2016-07-28 03:59 am
osprey_archer) wrote2016-07-28 03:59 am
War and Peace: Book 4, End of Part 1
I’ve reached the final book in War and Peace! We’re on the home stretch!
In other news, after two false starts Tolstoy finally succeeded in killing Prince Andrei, which seems a bit unfair, frankly. He nearly dies at Austerlitz, then he nearly dies at Borodino, and then he meets Natasha again and they’re reconciled and he seems to be on the mend and then… he just loses the will to live! That’s it! That’s what killed him.
I expect that Tolstoy is saying something deep here about the nature of life and love and something something, but mostly I’m just put out.
On the other hand, it does leave the door wide open for Princess Marya and Nikolai Rostov to get married (which they could not have if their siblings Prince Andrei and Natasha Rostova married, because of how Russian marriage laws worked), so I guess that’s some consolation. If Tolstoy actually lets them get married. I have lost all trust in him!
In other news, after two false starts Tolstoy finally succeeded in killing Prince Andrei, which seems a bit unfair, frankly. He nearly dies at Austerlitz, then he nearly dies at Borodino, and then he meets Natasha again and they’re reconciled and he seems to be on the mend and then… he just loses the will to live! That’s it! That’s what killed him.
I expect that Tolstoy is saying something deep here about the nature of life and love and something something, but mostly I’m just put out.
On the other hand, it does leave the door wide open for Princess Marya and Nikolai Rostov to get married (which they could not have if their siblings Prince Andrei and Natasha Rostova married, because of how Russian marriage laws worked), so I guess that’s some consolation. If Tolstoy actually lets them get married. I have lost all trust in him!
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Actually, I'm probably going to miss it when I finish the book. No one else torments quite like Tolstoy.
I'm also wondering if Pierre will marry Natasha, now that Ellen and Prince Andrei are out of the way, but somehow I just can't see it. He's just so Pierre, I can't imagine Natasha looking at him in a romantic light.