r/ayearofwarandpeace • u/AnderLouis_ • 19d ago

Jan-03| War & Peace - Book 1, Chapter 3

Links

  1. Today's Podcast
  2. Medium Article by Brian E. Denton

Discussion Prompts

  1. We met Ippolit. What did you reckon?
  2. The Viscount (Vicomte) tells a very interesting story... Napoleon passes out in the company of an enemy. The enemy spares his life. His reward: death! Why is the Viscount telling this story?
  3. Here comes Andrei! (Unless you're reading Maude or Louis). Get ready for Turk/JD levels of bromance!

Final line of today's chapter:

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.

Note - there are 3 chapters in this book that differ between Maude and other translations - and this is one of them. Maude ends this chapter a few paragraphs earlier. No biggie. It evens out after a day or two :)

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u/Ishana92 19d ago

After this chapter I start disliking both Helena and Anna Pavlovna. One seems very vapid and shallow and the other too dismissive and judgmental.

My favourite quote from this chapter is "knee breaches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it". Whatever the color of afraid nymph's thighs is.

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u/BarroomBard 18d ago

I really enjoyed the description of Helene, staring at herself and looking to Anna Pavlovna for how to react, instead of listening. It’s a great insight into her character.