Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read
Envy was present in yesterday’s chapter too. Prince Andrei, following his premonition of death, sinks into the ultimate envy driven existential crisis:
“…the French will come and take me by head and heels and fling me into a hole that I may not stink under their noses, and new conditions of life will arise, which will seem quite ordinary to others and about which I shall know nothing. I shall not exist . . .”
What I find interesting in today’s chapter is the depth of Tolstoy’s pacifist views. I again wonder why he devalued W&P after his celebrated “conversion” after reading such a strong anti war chapter like this one
