War and Peace is a massive book filled with hundreds of characters. It jumps around through different parts of Russia and the world chronicling the actions and motives of a diverse collection of people involved in the war. I am simply wondering who we would call the book's main character? Is it Pierre? Andrew? Or is this questions perhaps more complicated. We talked about how Tolstoy did not see War and Peace as a novel. Thus, is it possible that War and Peace is a book that is intentionally supposed to have no lead character? Even further, could one say that Tolstoy himself is the book's main character? He spends large sections of the work sketching out his philosophy and explaining his views through the role of a narrator? Who do we think is War and Peace's main character?
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