![]() ![]() Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Although Vronsky eventually takes Anna to Europe 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. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoj's style," and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as, "the best ever written." The novel continues to enjoy popularity, as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J.Anna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoj considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Tolstoj clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoj's negative views of Russian volunteers going to fight in Serbia) therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form in 1878. Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoj, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. ![]()
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