Anna Karenina - more comments
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page 400 today [sigh]
Sorry to say, but I think I'm bored. Anna Karenina's turnede out to be yet another "must read". This isn't an invitation. It's sort of an order you know? From a teacher. "Must read", and then you'll get tested on it. argh.
I mean, It's good. A good plot, but somehow it tells me something of the times [duh you think], like, when you don't have a TV mini-serie, you read Anna Karenina.
I know this sounds ignorant and not very 'class' but I guess I'm starved for interaction. So if you have anything to say about this, please.
The story
An upper class Russian woman, Anna Karenina, arrives in St Petersberg to meet her brother Stepan, who's convinced her to come to talk to his wife because she cares for Anna. Stepan has once again put his marriage in a crisis, and we're not sure if he cares that much - apparts from the fact that his own fortune has been damaged by his frivolous lifestyle. Stepan is waiting for Ana with another man: Count Vronsky a younger, handsome [of course] and secretly broke man. Vronsky is instantly attracted to her, and his charm and longing soon captivates her, because her life is so painfully boring otherwise, she willing to try anything at this point. Anna is married to a man twenty years her senior, who is so stuck into his "proper" gentle-man role that he's pretty much forgotten to love anything. Including his wife and son. When Anna's husband Karenin finds out about the affair, he just goes on doing what he thinks his 'gentleman' character should do - which is put justice, appearances of strenght and covert vengeance before sentiments. Of course Anna is brought down by her entourage. [this is where I stopped reading the book] Anyway, as we all know, in the end she throws herself under the wheels of a train, one of the most famous suicides in literary history.
some facts
time and place written · 1873–1877; the estate of Yasnaya Polyana, near Moscow
date of first publication · 1873–1877 (serial publication), like I said, the TV series of his time...
setting (time) · The 1870s
setting (place) · Various locations throughout Russia, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Russian provinces, with brief interludes in Germany and Italy
page 400 today [sigh]
Sorry to say, but I think I'm bored. Anna Karenina's turnede out to be yet another "must read". This isn't an invitation. It's sort of an order you know? From a teacher. "Must read", and then you'll get tested on it. argh.
I mean, It's good. A good plot, but somehow it tells me something of the times [duh you think], like, when you don't have a TV mini-serie, you read Anna Karenina.
I know this sounds ignorant and not very 'class' but I guess I'm starved for interaction. So if you have anything to say about this, please.
The story
An upper class Russian woman, Anna Karenina, arrives in St Petersberg to meet her brother Stepan, who's convinced her to come to talk to his wife because she cares for Anna. Stepan has once again put his marriage in a crisis, and we're not sure if he cares that much - apparts from the fact that his own fortune has been damaged by his frivolous lifestyle. Stepan is waiting for Ana with another man: Count Vronsky a younger, handsome [of course] and secretly broke man. Vronsky is instantly attracted to her, and his charm and longing soon captivates her, because her life is so painfully boring otherwise, she willing to try anything at this point. Anna is married to a man twenty years her senior, who is so stuck into his "proper" gentle-man role that he's pretty much forgotten to love anything. Including his wife and son. When Anna's husband Karenin finds out about the affair, he just goes on doing what he thinks his 'gentleman' character should do - which is put justice, appearances of strenght and covert vengeance before sentiments. Of course Anna is brought down by her entourage. [this is where I stopped reading the book] Anyway, as we all know, in the end she throws herself under the wheels of a train, one of the most famous suicides in literary history.
some facts
time and place written · 1873–1877; the estate of Yasnaya Polyana, near Moscow
date of first publication · 1873–1877 (serial publication), like I said, the TV series of his time...
setting (time) · The 1870s
setting (place) · Various locations throughout Russia, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Russian provinces, with brief interludes in Germany and Italy
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