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Well, since I started my hectic pace of reading, I have to say that only two authors have ever slowed me down, Proust and Tolstoy. The problem with Proust is evident; he didn't write about anything. Tolstoy rather wrote about everything. Anna Karenina is rife with philosophy, sociology, art history, politics and whatever else fit into this massive book which is basically about a woman who leaves her husband for a lover.
I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect Tolstoy to be as well read or as eviden ...more
I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect Tolstoy to be as well read or as eviden ...more
Reading Anna Karenina is akin to taking a course on psychology. Each character is thoroughly and realistically drawn and their interactions with each other are pitch perfect. W. Somerset Maugham may have well been thinking about Anna Karenina when he wrote: "Passion doesn't count the cost...It convinces you that honour is well sacrificed and that shame is a cheap price to pay. Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde...and if it doesn't destroy, it dies. It m
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