Anna Karenina

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In one of the greatest works of world literature, Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) not only tells the story of the tragic love of a married woman who left her husband for the sake of a handsome officer, but also comprehensively illuminates the most important facets of the life of the society contemporary to the author in a critical period of its development. The book is decorated with drawings by Russian artists Alexei Mikhailovich Korin (1865-1923), Alexander Viktorovich Moravov (1878-1951) and Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcheglov (1885-1955). Leo Tolstoy worked on Anna Karenina for five years, from 1873 to 1878; it was a period of awareness by the writer of the negative aspects of the life of the upper strata of society, a rethinking of the contemporary world order and the reality surrounding it, an active search for answers to the key questions of life. The conclusions, sometimes paradoxical, predetermined the reaction of the reading public to the novel. The book was received ambiguously: it was both praised and scolded, not only by ordinary readers, but also by professional writers. The philosopher, publicist and literary critic, a close friend of Tolstoy himself, N. N. Strakhov noted that “Anna Karenina excites such admiration and such bitterness that I don’t remember in literature. There is no end to the rumors ... Your novel occupies everyone and is unimaginably readable. The success is really incredible, crazy. Only Pushkin and Gogol were read like that, pouncing on their every page and neglecting everything that was written by others. Strakhov was echoed by the great-aunt and close friend of the writer, Countess A. A. Tolstaya: to everyone personally close. But I. S. Turgenev, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, F. M. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy's new novel at first disappointed. Noting the skill of Lev Nikolayevich in depicting various segments of the population, deep penetration into the psychology of the characters, the lifelikeness of situations and characters, they nevertheless considered the novel a step back compared to War and Peace, which thundered a decade ago. The populist critic A. M. Skabichevsky was especially harsh in his assessments, calling the first parts of Anna Karenina "an idyll of baby diapers", "melodramatic rubbish in the spirit of old French novels." And the first publisher of "Anna Karenina" M. N. Katkov even refused to publish the last, eighth part in his journal "Russian Messenger", being fundamentally disagreeing with Tolstoy's assessment of the volunteer movement in Russia in favor of the Serbs. However, time put everything in its place, and a little later, after reading the full text of the novel, the same Dostoevsky in his “Diary of a Writer” stated that “Anna Karenina is perfection as a work of art, which turned up just by the way, and such, with which nothing like from European literature in the present era can be compared, ”and art historian V.V. Stasov argued that“ Count Leo Tolstoy rose to such a high note that Russian literature had never taken before.

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Barcode: 9785960306584 SKU: 70149721 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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