![]() ![]() I recently had the opportunity to view the 2013 European production of Anna Karenina and finally felt like I understood Tolstoy’s story. Having previously seen two of these films I can say some of these adaptations are better than others. It has also appeared in opera, ballet, and the theater. There are numerous film and television series adaptations of this literature classic. With its exploration of themes such as faithfulness, love, passion, family, adultery, hypocrisy and jealousy, Anna Karenina is a rich source of storytelling. His most popular and well-known works include both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The famous Russian author’s name is often mentioned as one of literature’s great writers. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Few are unfamiliar with the name Leo Tolstoy. The novel details Levin's difficulties managing his estate, his eventual marriage, and personal issues, until the birth of Levin's first child. Levin has to propose twice before Kitty accepts. Despite Vronsky's reassurances she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fears losing control.Ī parallel story within the novel is of Levin, a country landowner who desires to marry Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Anna's brother Oblonsky. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Although Vronsky and Anna go to Italy where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing-something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.Ī bachelor, Vronsky is willing to marry her if she would agree to leave her husband Karenin, a government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, her own insecurities and Karenin's indecision. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in "The Top Ten" in Time (), which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".Īnna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The novel is currently enjoying popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Series: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time ![]()
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