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Anna Karenina - Part 3 and 4
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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina:"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Tolstoy draws us into the tragedy by looking down in disdain at boring, happy families (the Brady family always comes to my mind) and sells his book by deciding that unhappy families provide more variety and thus entertainment, however tragic. From the start, we know that things will end badly, so later when we are introduced to Anna and Vronsky, we are more fascinated by the details on how ...more
Tolstoy draws us into the tragedy by looking down in disdain at boring, happy families (the Brady family always comes to my mind) and sells his book by deciding that unhappy families provide more variety and thus entertainment, however tragic. From the start, we know that things will end badly, so later when we are introduced to Anna and Vronsky, we are more fascinated by the details on how ...more
Okay, I'm a casual reader, not a PhD in English. It's very melodramatic, and Tolstoy is very interested in agrarian politics, which I guess makes sense for when it was written. I'm still not exactly sure why Anna Karenina lost her mind and *spoiler alert* threw herself in front of a train. And then, after the huge climax, Tolstoy spends a chapter back on agrarian stuff or something. I can't even remember the last chapter. He's sort of a Russian Dickens, but better. He has a lot of insight on hum
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