Volume IV, Part 1, Chapter 13
Karataev's introduction: roundness as moral and physical principle, his folk speech and proverbs.
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From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The small, round peasant prisoner whose simple acceptance of life teaches Pierre the meaning he has sought — one of Tolstoy's most ideologically loaded characters.
Volume IV, Part 3, Chapter 13
Karataev's death — shot by the French when he can no longer walk, accepting his fate while telling a final parable.
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