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The Overcoming of History in "War and Peace" marks a radical departure from the critical tradition dominated by Sir Isaiah Berlin's view that the novel is deeply divided against itself, a majestically flawed contest of brilliant art and clumsy thought. To the contrary, Jeff Love argues that the apparently divided nature of the text, its multi-leveled negotiation between different kinds of representation, expresses the rich variety of the novel's very deliberate striving to capture the fluidity of change and becoming in the fixed forms of language. The inevitable failure of this striving, revealing the irreducible conflict between infinite desire and finite capacity, is at once the source of new beginnings and the repetition of old ones, a wellspring of continually renewed promises to achieve a synoptic vision of the whole that the novel cannot fulfill. This repetitive struggle between essentially comic and tragic conceptions of human action, far from being a pervasive flaw in the texture of the novel, in fact constitutes its dynamic center and principal trope as well as the productive origin of the unusual features that distinguish it as an uncommonly bold narrative experiment.

Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- Tolstoy, Leo --- History in literature.

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van dis (adriaan), 1946 --- -polak (chaja), 1941 --- -histoire dans la litterature

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Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- History in literature. --- Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich --- Knowledge --- History

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Et si Ponce Pilate avait gracié Jesus ? Si Hitler était mort en 1930 dans un accident de voiture ? Si Napoléon avait gagné à Waterloo ? La suite de l'histoire du monde en eut été changée. Contrairement à d'autres formes de littérature de l'imaginaire ou l'inventivité ne se donne pas de limites, dans l'uchronie, il s'agit de réécrire une histoire probable à partir d'un point où les faits auraient pu diverger. L'uchronie (u préfixe négatif + chronos, temps) est, disait son fondateur Charles Renouvier, une "utopie appliquée à l'histoire", c'est-a-dire l'histoire "refaite logiquement telle qu'elle aurait pu être". Le présent ouvrage, écrit par le spécialiste français de l'uchronie, propose définitions, descriptions et comparaisons qui permettent de saisir toutes les nuances de ce genre fascinant où la fantaisie rejoint souvent la méditation philosophique et la réflexion historique.

Fiction --- Thematology --- Imaginary histories. --- History --- History in literature. --- Histoire-fiction --- Histoire --- Histoire dans la littérature --- Miscellanea. --- Miscellanées --- Histoire dans la littérature --- Miscellanées

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American literature --- USA: South --- Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- Histoire dans la littérature --- Southern States