Keep at it. This novel is brilliant and entertaining. Tolstoy has the big, famous men pretending they are in control but in reality he is telling us history relies on sergei peasant and pierre shopkeeper dictating the course of history by being in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time. By shooting/being shot by sergei/pierre in the smoke and claustrophobia of battle and turning the russian/french front line without knowing a thing.
this is one of the most amazing, unusual expressive geniuses ever born. Talk to me about this beautiful poet.
