Better late than never. Tolstoy’s main novel on UK bestseller listings

LONDON. The British appreciated Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” after a century and a half.

Residents of the UK are lucky. They did not go through “War and Peace” at school, did not write many kilometers of works on it. Therefore, with a light heart and brains not tedious tedious analysis opened to meet the great novel. Lucky with the film adaptation proposed by talented people from the BBC (BBC). Despite the attempts of lovers of Russian literature and Soviet cinema to compare the English version with the canonical tape Bondarchuk is not in favor of the first.

Inaccuracies, liberties, some inconsistencies with the text of the original do not cancel the main one. A fascinating story about life, love and war with the charming Lily James in the role of Natasha Rostova, charming and young, which is important, Paul Dano, who played Pierre Bezukhov, made me want to immediately get acquainted with the source.

According to some compatriots, the same thing happened to them. The book of Leo Tolstoy is already in the middle of the first hundred of the most widely read books in the UK, but the series was just recently. Therefore, the main success of the book is yet to come. And now it is selling like hot cakes. The bill is already going to tens of thousands. What will be the result if you show the series in Russia? Avalanche or not notice?

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru