Table of Contents
Note on translations; Introduction; Part I. War On Narrative: 1. Tolstoy's absolute language; 2. Formal peculiarities of 'War and Peace'; 3. Solving the puzzle of 'War and Peace'; Part II. Hazardous Systems: 4. The hazards of history; 5. The problems of historiography: negative absolutes and negative explanations; 6. Forms of negative narration; Part III. Selves and Decisions: 7. The aggregate of self; 8. Pierre and Andrei: decisions, language, relevation; Afterword; Notes; Index.