Best Language, Linguistics & Writing in Russian

1 Анна Каренина (Русская классическая литература) (Russian Edition)

Score: 90 / 100

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Не фабульная завершенность положений, а творческая концепция определяет выбор материала и открывает простор для развития сюжетных линий. In an informative introduction, Pevear gives the reader a history of the work Tolstoy called his first true novel and which took him some four years to write. Pevear explains how Tolstoy took real events, incorporated them into his novel, and went through several versions before this tale of the married Anna and her love for Count Vronsky emerged in its final form in 1876.

Reviews

"It wasn't like a regular story where there's a pretty clear end goal, like get the bad guy, or solve the mystery. I thought maybe it's just going to stop abruptly, as if Tolstoy would just suddenly be done writing about all these characters, but it really did have a solid ending to conclude everything. You've got plenty of time to look at all the flowers and clouds and barns and animals along the way, it takes forever, but it never stops moving. If however after a few hundred pages you feel like it's a chore to read, then don't bother, it's not going to suddenly become more interesting after any point in the book. It's very consistent, you can trust this author and the translation, the ending won't let you down, there will be no long lulls. What you get in the beginning is what you get through the entire book, it's very steady and very high quality writing."

"All societies chew up and spit out certain people - and this shows that happening to beautiful Anna Karenina."

"The characters were too full of themselves and problems seemed to be so high class and inconsequential."

"Tolstoy takes the reader on a journey through converging storylines that all bring the reader to feel deeply connected with the characters."

"My grandmothers family came from Russia, my 3x great- grandmother was a Lady- in- waiting to Catherine the Great and my 2x great grand mother was named after her so to read about what the society from peasants to royalty were struggling with as times changed is very informative to me."

"Your request to describe the plot of Anna Karenina as Predictable, Some twists, or Full of Surprises is simply silly and entirely inappropriate."

"There was so much french in the book that I completely skipped over complete paragraphs because I just didn't want to look up every word online while I was lying in bed. One character in a book (one person in real life) can have so many names, it gets a bit confusing at times! The character development Tolstoy lays Anna's world out bare for you to look at. I had just finished The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky when I started this book, and now looking at when they were written, I understand why their are some similarities."