War and Peace: 4.4.1-5

04/06/22 • 42 min

How to Eat an Elephant: A Little Book Club for Large Books

At long last we’re checking back in on Natasha! The HEE crew talks about Tolstoy’s depiction of grief in her story, as well as the reason he switches so suddenly back to narrating Kutuzov’s march to the Russian border when it was just getting good.
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In this episode we pay our respects to Kutuzov before unpacking what is the beginning of a beautiful payoff to Pierre’s story.
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