Andrew Kaufman: "This is How I Found My Voice and Myself in War and Peace"
Andrew Kaufman has penned a guest post on Rachel Thompson's blog about the process and inspiration behind writing his book
Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times.
❝ The hardest part of writing a book about War and Peace, I told him, wasn’t all those years spent researching the topic, or mastering something writers fancily refer to as “craft.” No, the most difficult part was making sure I was telling the truth—about Tolstoy, and about myself. How could I share Tolstoy’s wisdom about happiness if I didn’t know my own views on the subject? How could I talk about what love and death and courage mean to Tolstoy without knowing what those things meant to me? That would be like trying to describe to others a magnificent landscape I’d observed while looking through a dirty window or sharing the beauty of a concert I’d listened to with ear muffs on. [RachelintheOC.com]
| ANDREW KAUFMAN is an internationally recognized Russian literature scholar & author of Give War and Peace a Chance. Watch his TED Talk on "The Inmate, The Student, And Tolstoy" below, and learn more about booking Andrew for your next event today. |
