If he ties himself in mental knots of his own making, there is something sympathetic and admirable as well as ludicrous in him doing so.
He keeps changing his mind — wanting to improve his estate, marry Kitty, marry a peasant, marry Kitty again, wanting to die, wanting to live — but only because he embraces each position so firmly that he is temporarily blind to its limitations, and thereby reveals these limitations to us.
Those of us who have known it get around it in our different ways. Many of us have known religious joy, and have known its passing. Tolstoy decisively rejected Orthodoxy, although not Christianity, after finishing Anna Karenina. In Russia, the novel which was in its own time judged to be conservative, and was only tolerated in the Soviet literary canon on sufferance as realistic, now has little appeal.
Modern Russian society resembles Tsarist society still less than does modern Britain, in that its class structure has been smashed, and divorce rates are higher still than those here.
In the tough post-Soviet years, when secular society promoted nothing but Westernisation and wealth-accumulation, many people returned to Orthodoxy, and its implicit patriotism.
One does not know how long this will last. But, as we feel at the ending of that passionate, anti-romantic, conflicted novel that is Anna Karenina — it is too early to tell.
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Cosy duvet coats to live in this season. Where to find the best Black Friday beauty deals. Westend61 Getty Images. It is a shame,for,as you said,he has so much to offer! Stumbled onto your blog and I love your reviews! Anna Karenina is on my classics To-Read list, and your review helps to motivate me to get to it sooner.
I look forward to reading more! Thanks a lot!! I try to translate my passion into words while making my posts as helpful and informative as possible! I am planning on ordering it soon! And which translator? And thank you for the heads-up about the names.
Haha,thanks for reading this post. I was lucky enough to get a Folio Society edition of the book. It is quite expensive though,as are all Folio books. The translators are the Maude couple. The Maudes knew Leo Tolstoy personally and worked with him when translating his work. So in my opinion their translation is by far the best. The other translators tend to take away the Russian feel from the book.
So yes,you can buy any edition by the Maude couple. Oh sorry I saw this so late! This is rather usual with Russian novels. I think you accidentally set it as private or protected. Very strange…. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. What you will like in Anna Karenina : 1. What you might not like in Anna Karenina : 1.
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