War and Peace. Volume III-IV

Writing about the plot of the epic novel is an adventurous endeavor. There are epic chances of not fitting into a limited number of lines. Therefore, let us describe «War and Peace» as physicists do, not as lyrical writers. After all, physicists are concise even when they speak about the Universe. So, Kutuzov and Napoleon are two magnetic poles. Let the individual force lines in the space between them be the characters of the novel. There are 569 of them. This number includes all classes of society, all ages and characters; the author analyzes their gestures, facial expressions, and even thoughts. And let's agree to consider the general magnetic field as the people, or, depending on its manifestation in the novel, the crowd.

All this wonderful physics interacts and lives within the volume of a single book, but always offers new details to the observer, as if he were gazing intently at things and seeing atoms behind the molecules, and behind them—elementary particles. And then he would fit what he sees into the overall picture of the world and seemingly feel a strange magnetism—not by instruments, but by his very soul.