Razboi si pace a avut o geneza agitata si poarta amprenta creatorului sau sfasiat fara incetare de tendinte conflictuale. Romanul a devenit terenul de manifestare a zbuciumului interior, a carui evolutie, opunand mereu esentialul artificialului, va substitui realul si viziunea exterioara cu parerea subiectiva si rezultatul viziunii interioare. Fidel propriilor exigente, Tolstoi a facut din Razboi si pace o capodopera a literaturii universale, imprimandu-I un caracter profund uman. Razboi si pace este considerat a fi cel mai mare roman scris vreodata, remarcabil prin complexitate si unitate, un roman istorico-psihologic de mari proportii. Pe panza sa vasta, se tes povestile a peste 500 de personaje, dintre care unele sunt istorice si altele fictive. Povestea se deplaseaza de pe planul vietii de familie catre cartierul general al lui Napoleon, de la curtea tarului Alexandru I al Rusiei pe campul de lupta de la Austerlitz si Borodino.
Author
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
