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Anna Karenina (1877)

by Leo Tolstoy

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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Tolstoy in his literary masterpiece Anna Karenina. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest realist novels ever written, Tolstoy himself saw it as his first true novel. The novel was not well received by critics when first published, but Tolstoy's fellow Russian greats all considered it a great work of art.

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I really hated this story! I always hope for reconciliation and repentance. Instead, everything goes toward a wrong conclusion all the way to the end … with the possible exception of Kostia Levin. ( )
  claidheamdanns | Sep 26, 2023 |
A great love story, and more. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
Loved everything except the last chapter. He absolutely could have left the last part off and left us a masterpiece. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Uno dei romanzi più belli che abbia letto nella mia vita, è narrato da vari punti di vista e le storie di numerosi personaggi si avvicendano e si intrecciano.

Innanzi tutto abbiamo Dolly e Stiva, moglie e marito in crisi dopo una scappatella di lui. Faranno la pace, ma a che scopo? Certo, la loro unità familiare sarà preservata agli occhi dei loro figli e della società, ma la felicità non albergherà più tra di loro. Vedremo quindi una donna che si butta anima e corpo nell'educazione dei figli, addolorandosi oltremodo quando questa non sortisce i risultati desiderati. E avremo un uomo, Stiva, che persevera impenitente nelle sue avventure extra-matrimoniali, dilapida il patrimonio ed è in tutto e per tutto membro della corrotta alta società russa.

Abbiamo poi Levin e Kitty. Anime candide e semplici, mostreranno al lettore la felicità che deriva dal focolare e dalla vita essenziale di campagna. A Kitty è sufficiente l'amore del marito, vederlo felice ed esserne felice. E per Levin la vita di società, i giochi della politica, certe disquisizioni filosofiche saranno incomprensibili perché non necessari allo svolgimento della vita quotidiana.

E poi c'è lei, Anna Karenina, il personaggio assolutamente più potente e indimenticabile del romanzo. Sposata con un uomo rispettabile, si innamorerà di Vronskij di un amore proibito e così assoluto da spingerla ad abbandonare marito e figlio. E tuttavia, sarà un amore che le porterà tanto dolore: per la lontananza dal figlio, per i giudizi moralisti della società contro la sua scelta, per il marito odiato e allo stesso tempo rispettato per le sue decisioni, per la perdita dell'onore e di tutto ciò che una donna potesse possedere di prezioso. La potenza della sua figura, incapace di convivere con la falsità come fanno Dolly e Stiva e altrettanto incapace di trovare la pace come Levin e Kitty, domina e regna sulle storie di tutti gli altri, la sua luce vi seguirà durante la lettura e vi farà interpretare ogni evento in funzione della sua infelice situazione.
Ma alla fine l'oscurità offuscherà il suo splendore, il suo amore totalizzante e assoluto per Vronskij finirà per cercare di risucchiarlo nelle sue spire. Determinato a mantenere la sua indipendenza da uomo, Vronskij, pur amando Anna con tutto se stesso, cercherà di sfuggire a questa eccessività d'amore. E Anna, che ormai sente di non avere più nulla, sarà davvero una donna perduta, ma non prima di aver capito il senso della vita, la vita che le sembra gretta, piena d'odio e di bassi appetiti. Un senso che non è dato sapere razionalmente ai vivi, come scoprirà lo stesso Levin. ( )
  kristi_test_02 | Jul 28, 2023 |
I would consider War and Peace the greater novel, but gosh, isn't this a fantastic piece of work? What author so successfully places us inside the head of each of its characters, moving them forward with an unrelenting pace while also tying them so closely to the fortunes of their nation? Wondrous. ( )
  therebelprince | May 1, 2023 |
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De nieuwe vertaling van Anna Karenina leest als een trein, dankzij allerlei knappe vondsten van vertaler Hans Boland.
 

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Vengeance is mine; I will repay. ~ Deuteronomy 32:35
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему. Всё смешалось в доме Облонских.
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another, every unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. (N. H. Dole, 1886)
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Pevear, Volokhonsky, 2000)
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"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be." [Anna, p744 (2000)]
"He has long ceased loving me. And where love stops, hatred begins." [Anna, p763 (2000)]
Every minute of Alexei Alexandrovich's life was occupied and scheduled. And in order to have time to do what he had to do each day, he held to the strictest punctuality. 'Without haste and without rest' was his motto. [p109 (2000)]
Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is. [p302 (2000)]
Vronsky meanwhile, despite the full realization of what he had desired for so long, was not fully happy. He soon felt that the realization of his desire had given him only a grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the the eternal error people make in imagining that happiness is the realization of desires. [...] He soon felt arise in his soul a desire for desires, an anguish. [p465 (2000)]
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Please keep the Norton Critical Edition un-combined with the rest of them – it is significantly different with thorough explanatory annotations, essays by other authors, and reviews by other authors. Thank you.
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Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML:

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Tolstoy in his literary masterpiece Anna Karenina. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest realist novels ever written, Tolstoy himself saw it as his first true novel. The novel was not well received by critics when first published, but Tolstoy's fellow Russian greats all considered it a great work of art.

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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, “We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life.”
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The moral of this:
Adultery drives one mad.
And watch out for trains.
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Peasants have it grand.
A day labouring with them.
Then three-course dinner.
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