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Tolstoy and War and Peace
This course offers a unique opportunity to read closely two important novels by Tolstoy:
The Cossacks and
War and Peace. Texts are explored along several avenues: the novels' historical and literary contexts; the tradition of realism in nineteenth century Russian literature; the literary devices employed; and some of the rich metaphysical, psychological, aesthetic, and political themes developed.
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Tues. June 10, San Francisco
DAVID MONTGOMERY, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Slavic languages and literatures at UC Berkeley. He has studied and worked in Russia, where he was a first-hand witness to the last days of Gorbachev's perestroika and the beginnings of the new order in the Russian economy.
- 6 meetings
- June 10 to July 15: Tues., 6:30-9:30 pm
- San Francisco: Room 802, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $225 (EDP 014381)
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Publication Year: 2004
ISBN: 978-0060586973
AND
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Publication Year: 1993
ISBN: 978-1566630191
AND
War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy, George Gibian, trans.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Edition: Second
Publication Year: 1996
ISBN: 039396647X