Tolstoy

[NOIRTRASH]

I'm 300 pages or so into WAR & PEACE. 1500 pages altogether. A good translation makes a difference with the enjoyment factor, because Tolstoy created lotsa metaphors about human experience, and Tolstoy was a first-rate psychologist like Shakespeare. Tolstoy had plenty to say about the human condition.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I remember Anthony Hopkins playing Pierre in the BBC' s huge production of War and Peace, back in 1972. Very good. Morag Hood played Natasha.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I remember Anthony Hopkins playing Pierre in the BBC' s huge production of War and Peace, back in 1972. Very good. Morag Hood played Natasha.

I loved that BBC version. The other one of theirs I just bought this year was Brideshead Revisited. Its marvellous. They're both so good. I did read War and Peace but found it heavy going. Putting it back on my list to reread along with Anna Karenina.

Its not BBC but did you ever watch Bhowani Junction. Another old brit classic set in India at the time of independance. I loved the book too. John Masters is a bit under rated as an author I feel. Not in the same league as Tolstoy tho.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I loved that BBC version. The other one of theirs I just bought this year was Brideshead Revisited....

... did you ever watch Bhowani Junction

What scares me is I remember watching Brideshead, War and Peace, The Edge of Darkness etc. etc. when they first ran on television.... Currently watching the BBC "House of Cards" with Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart - it's aged very well (released 1990 - 1995).

I've even seen every one of Doctor Who's regenerations the first time they screened on Oz TV....

Bhowani Junction? No.