Uma análise da concepção de História em Guerra e Paz (1863 – 1869) de Liev Tolstói

an analysis of Leo Tolstoy's conception of history in War and Peace (1863-1869)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse the conception of History contained in War and Peace. For this, I will focus on an argument by François Hartog (1946 - ), which detects a tendency of 19th century novelists to focus on the loopholes of the modern regime of historicity. What would this "modern regime" and its characteristics be? What are the factors that make Tolstoy focus and enter into his fissures? And how did he get that? To clarify these issues, it is worth, first, to understand the relationship between history, literature and fiction in the 19th century; second, to define the conception of History transmitted by Guerra e Paz, based on the investigation of its historical-philosophical elements; and, third, to study some narrative fragments of the novel in evidence, in the light of the definition made in the previous step. Thus, it becomes possible to defend the importance of analyzing the linguistic structures of a given work to better understand its content.