Anna Karenina

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Автор: Лев Толстой

Название: Anna Karenina

Издательство: Planet eBook

Год: 1877/2008

Формат: PDF

Язык: английский

Качество: eBook (изначально компьютерное)

Количество страниц: 1423

Размер: 4,79 МБ

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Anna Karenina (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form.

Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. The character of Anna was likely inspired, in part, by Maria Hartung (Russian spelling Maria Gartung, 1832–1919), the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.[citation needed] Soon after meeting her at dinner, Tolstoy began reading Pushkin's prose and once had a fleeting daydream of "a bare exquisite aristocratic elbow", which proved to be the first intimation of Anna's character.

Although Russian critics dismissed the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of high life", Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style" and the motif of the moving train, subtly introduced in the first chapters (the children playing with a toy train) and inexorably developed in subsequent chapters (Anna's nightmare), heralding the novel's majestic finale. The novel is currently enjoying popularity as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by Time magazine, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".

Роман о незаконной и трагичной любви замужней дамы Анны Карениной к блестящему офицеру Вронскому на фоне чистой любви и счастливой семейной жизни Константина Лёвина и Кити Щербацкой. Масштабная картина нравов и быта дворянской среды Петербурга и Москвы второй половины XIX века, сочетающая философские размышления авторского alter ego Лёвина с передовыми в русской литературе психологическими зарисовками, а также сценами из жизни крестьян.