War and Peace: a Romanesque Epic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2024.222603Keywords:
Tolstoy, Epic, Novel, Education novelAbstract
This article aims to analyze Leo Tolstoy’s work War and peace, published in 1867, specifically the characteristics that make it both an epic and a novel. Aspects of the education novel present in it were also investigated, comparing it with the novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, published by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1796. For this purpose, the elements of the epic and the novel present in War and Peace were described. The study also focuses on the figure of the hero created by Tolstoy who, at first, resembles the Homeric hero, but who later transforms into a Christian hero. The result allowed us to conclude that this work contains characteristics of the two literary genres focused on in this research and reveals Tolstoy’s literary greatness.
Downloads
References
BAKHTIN, Mikhail. O romance de educação na história do realismo. In: Estética da criação verbal. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1997, p. 223-276.
BÍBLIA SAGRADA. Tradução Ecumênica da Bíblia. São Paulo: editora Loyola, 1994.
FIGUEIREDO, Rubens. Apresentação. In: TOLSTÓI, Liev. Guerra e paz. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2017.
GOETHE, J. Os anos de aprendizado de Wilhelm Meister. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2009.
GOLDMANN, Lucien. A sociologia do romance. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1976.
HOMERO. Ilíada. São Paulo: Penguin, 2013.
JEPSEN, Laura. “Prince Andrey as epic hero in Tolstoy’s War and Peace”. South Atlantic Bulletin, vol. 34, n. 4, nov. 1969, pp. 5-7.
MASS, W. P. M. D. O cânone mínimo: O Bildungsroman na história da literatura. São Paulo: Editora Unesp. 2000.
NASCIMENTO, João Gabriel Haiek Elid. “O conceito de Bildungsroman”. Filogenese (Unesp), vol. 13, 2020, pp. 82-99.
SCHAMA, Simon. Nothing important in human life is missing from Tolstoy’s pages. The Globe and Mail, Canada, outubro de 2017. Disponível em: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/simon-schama-nothing-important-in-human-life-is-missing-from-tolstoys-pages/article36903502/. Acesso em: 03 de maio de 2024.
SCHWANTES, Cíntia Carla Moreira. “Narrativas de formação contemporânea: uma questão de gênero”. Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Brasília, n. 30; p. 53-62, jul./dez. 2007.
SIPHONE, Raquel Abuin. Um labirinto de encadeamentos: a poética dialética de Lev Tolstói, segundo Boris Eikhenbaum. Dissertação (Mestrado em Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada) - Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, p. 227. 2024.
SLOANE, David. “The poetry in War and Peace”. The Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 40, n. 1, 1996, pp. 63-84.
STEIGER, Emil. Conceitos fundamentais da poética. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1977.
TOLSTÓI, Liev. Guerra e paz. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2017.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Marcella Faria
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in RUS agree to the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
