War
and Peace, a
review
Juan
José Angulo de la Calle
The
book War and Peace was
written by Tolstoi in the nineteenth century. Although it is very
famous, it is not very popular because it has almost two thousand
pages.
The
novel is set in Russia in the begining of the nineteenth century,
during the Napoleonic wars.
It
is about the life of three aristocratic families during the
Napoleonic wars: their relantionships, their parties, their romantic
histories and, of course, their participation in the different wars
against Napoleon. Besides, Tolstoi describes the terrible effects of
the wars: destruction, deaths and pain.
Apart
from that, the characters are quite interesting because: they have
different opinions about the life and the war, they are pasional and
similar to us, and they are develping their personality during the
story.
Everybody
must read this book because the plot is really thought-provoking: it
has a message which says the war is an organized crime and the peace
is the real nature of humanity.
