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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I read War and Peace at a time I was stranded in Germany with nothing else to read, and that's the only reason I managed to finish it: I had no choice  I managed to do it by skipping all the boring parts about politics and war in general and Napoleon in particular (I think - it's been a while) and reading only the romance parts, which I enjoyed a lot. They are quite clearly separated, it was surprisingly easy to do. May not be very practical in e-book form though. |
Your description reminds me of Sartre's
Les mots when he's describing how he was writing novels- a bit of explanation, a bit of action. Or Hugo's way of placing some political/social chapters in his books (anyone remember the part of the Misérables where he says that basically nuns are losers? The one who sent the book on the Index immediately?)