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Tolstoy's Family Prototypes in War and Peace (Hardcover)
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Tolstoy's Family Prototypes in War and Peace (Hardcover)
Series: Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts
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What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members
of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection
for close relatives influence depictions of these real prototypes
in his fictional characters? Tolstoy used these models to consider
his origins, to ponder alternative family histories, and to
critique himself. Comparison of the novel and its fascinating
drafts with the writer's family history reveals increasing
preferential treatment of those with greater relatedness to him:
kin altruism, i.e., nepotism. This pattern helps explain many of
Tolstoy's choices amongst plot variants he considered, as well as
some of the curious devices he utilizes to get readers to share his
biases, such as coincidences, notions of "fate," and aversion to
incest.
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