“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
Anna Karenina, a beautiful, sensuous, and rebellious young woman, is unhappily married to the wealthy but cold aristocrat Alexey Alexandrovitch. Restless in her passionless marriage, she lives in a society and times where Church rules the order for the wealthy; one wrong can bring down the entire family. Thus, she was floating through life until she met Count Vronsky. They fell passionately in love, convinced they met their soulmates. The story goes through their struggles to get approval for divorce, and their desire to live together in a complex society.
Tolstoy uses his characters to raise complex questions about family’s, egos that become a handcuff, and a society that becomes limiting to individual happiness. His famous novel is seemingly ahead of its times as it questions the inherent bias within people.
About the Author
LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910), a Russian novelist, considered one of the best writers of all times, was born on August 28, 1828, in Russa’s Tula Province. His mother died when he was two years old, and his father died when he was nine years old, so he was mostly brought up by distant relatives. Despite his childhood being marked by the early deaths of his mother and siblings, he received a good education and was exposed to a wide range of ideas and cultural influences. His first piece of writing that became famous was Childhood which was published in 1852. Some of his most famous works, including War and Peace and Anna Karenina. These works established Tolstoy as one of the profound writers of his time and cemented his reputation as a master of realism and a writer with great moral values.
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