Anna Karenina
《Anna Karenina》
Brief introduction of the works
Anna Karenina is a novel by the famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1877. This work mainly focuses on the heroine Anna Karenina, telling the story of her rebellion against feudalism and pursuit of love, but she is not understood by society and finally commits suicide. Depicting more than 150 characters, the novel is a social encyclopedia reflecting Russia and a typical work of critical realism. After the novel was published, it also caused a social explosion and also influenced the subsequent democratic revolution in Russia.
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Leo tolstoy
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was a russian critical realist writer, thinker, and philosopher of the mid-19th century.
Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic family in 1828, but unfortunately his mother died at the age of 1 and a half, and his father died at the age of 10, and he was raised by relatives in the family. He only began writing during his military service and later fought in the war. He deeply understood the contradictions of capitalist society, and also deeply experienced the cruelty of war, and finally with his critical ideological consciousness and superb literary attainments, he created world-class works such as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", which to a certain extent influenced the change in Russia and the progress of the world.
Tolstoy and his wife
Tolstoy was 17 years older than his wife, Tolstaja. As a young man, Tolstoy lived a frivolous life, playing with women, gambling and drinking as a teenager
Later, he also contracted venereal diseases and even had an illegitimate daughter with a slave girl. Tolstaja, the daughter of the Tsar's physician, married Tolstoy at the age of 17, and they later had 13 children. It is said that in the early days, the two had a good relationship, Tolstoy once had Tolstoy devoted himself to writing, his wife assisted him in transcribe and preserve the manuscript, to know that "Anna Karenina" has 600,000 words, when the work is deleted, the workload of trancribing and preserving the manuscript is very large. Moreover, Tolstaja was also Tolstoy's agent, responsible for dealing with publishers and others, and once met with the Russian Tsar alone so that her husband's work "Kletzer Sonata" was not banned, so that the work was successfully published. Later, in his later years, Tolstaja began to suffer from gains and losses, first jealous of the women who had had relationships with Tolstoy before, and in severe cases, he did not even allow Tolstoy to contact his daughter, female editors, etc. After inevitable threats such as running away from home and committing suicide, the two men quarreled continuously, and later she fell in love with a 39-year-old musician, Taniev, in her 50s. At the end of the story, she breaks with Tolstoy, and after that, in remorse, she kneels down and begs Tolstoy to read for her the poems and prose that her husband wrote for herself in his early years to regain her original sweetness, but Tolstoy was dead at the time, and he did not want to see her until he died.
The prototype of Anna Karenina
From the beginning, Tolstoy intended to write a novel about the failure of a married woman from a higher society in 1972, and intended to write this woman pitifully and innocently. Two years later, a woman named Annazkova, discovering that her lover had a new lover, proposed to her son's governess, and later committed suicide. So Tolstoy began to write in 1873, completed in 1877, the novel once used the title of "Young Wife", "Two Marriages", "Two Couples" and other titles, and finally used the name of the heroine as the title.
The main character in Anna Karenina
anna
Anna was a beautiful, noble, intelligent, brave aristocratic woman. She has a different self-female consciousness awakening, looking forward to love, and chasing individual liberation. She dared to fight against fate and was also deeply persecuted by public opinion, but in the end, she was still unable to get rid of the shackles of aristocratic society imposed on her spirit from the aspects of law, religion, and public opinion, which led to her struggling between the liberation of her personality and traditional morality, and finally suffered to schizophrenia and destruction.
Vronsky
Like Anna, she came from an aristocratic family, was intelligent and charitable, but loved vanity, pleasure, and fame. He has a sincere love for Anna, but he is a convert of feudal aristocratic society, and in the end his love is still not worthy of realistic compromise.
Karenin
Karenin is a typical image of a feudal bureaucrat, bent on pursuing fame and fame, rigid in his thinking, insensitive in his feelings, hypocritical and vulgar, and conformist. Even knowing anna's pursuit of love, he still wanted to maintain decency, insist on not divorcing, and even later colluded with the vicious Countess Lydia, using family fetters, religious indoctrination, public opinion condemnation, legal threats, spiritual destruction, and so on to control Anna's rebellion.
Anna Karenina became one of the most beautiful and plump female figures in the history of world literature. Reading "Anna Karenina" will not only lament the ruthlessness of the ugly face of feudal capitalist society, but also make people lament the true love inside and outside the novel. If you want to see a more real life and society, try to explore it, and when we dig into our souls, we may have different ideas.
We dig our souls,
It's often dug up
Something that hasn't been discovered.