How did Anna Karenina evolve from a trivial high-society adulteress, whom Tolstoy despised, into one of the deepest, most sensitive tragic heroines in all of literature? What happened inside Tolstoy to condition this metamorphosis? Creating Anna Karenina is a worthy companion to the novel.” Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia, staff writer at The New Yorker Blaisdell's passion for the subject, and his always-surprising discoveries about the great man and his creation, kept me turning the pages unstoppably. "That Creating Anna Karenina is a major contribution to Tolstoy scholarship makes it no less of a delight to read.
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He is a reviewer for the Sanįrancisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Christian Science Her fateful suicide is the road that Tolstoy nearly traveled himself.Īt once a nuanced biography and portrait of the last decades of the Russian empire and artful literary examination, Creating Anna Karenina will enthrall the thousands of readers whose lives have become deeper and clearer after experiencing this hallmark of world literature.īob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University But in truth, it is within Anna that the consciousness and energy flows with the same depth and complexities as Tolstoy. Readers often assume that Tolstoy, a nobleman-turned-mystic would write himself into the principled Levin. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel.Ĭritic and professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.Īnna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Creating Anna Karenina Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine Bob Blaisdell
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