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Savaş ve Barış
Literary Fiction / History
Tolstoy's monumental 1869 novel tracing five Russian aristocratic families through Napoleon's invasion, arguing that history is driven not by great men but by the aggregate motion of peoples. Şengör cites it among his earliest formative reads and returns to it as a model of how literature can contain genuine historical philosophy.
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Celal Şengör
Şengör recommends Savaş ve Barış as a formative novel from his early reading, valuing Tolstoy's philosophical treatment of history as the product of mass human motion rather than individual heroism.