Posted on 09/09/2014 6:58:32 AM PDT by Borges
...Anna Karenina, is brought to life by Google with an image of Anna and Vronsky as they first meet
...His epic novel, War and Peace, is illustrated with Pierre Bezukhov, looking up at the great comet of 1812:
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He has the scene from “Anna” where Levin proposes to Kitty by writing letters on a table in chalk. Such a beautiful scene. Always loved Levin and Kitty better than Anna and Vronsky.
Yes. Somebody once wrote that by the end of Anna Karenina most readers wanted to help push Anna in front of the train.
Having not read it until my late 20s and loving it, I learned that War and Peace is one of those books that everyone has read among upscale professionals, but if you can question them over a few drinks, you find that almost none of them actually read it.
Does reading the Cliff Notes count?
‘War and Peace’ is actually very easy to read. The only difficulties are the (to non Russians) foreign sounding names and length. And the historical philosophy chapters can easily be removed to make for a concise abridged version.
War and Peace
I saw the movie. The RUSSIAN version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_%28film_series%29
Dang! I’m 56, and just learned I had never lived, and never will!
Oh well...off to go riding horses when I COULD be reading Leo “Will It Never End?” Tolstoy...
Anna Karenina: Every time I read it, I’m amazed all over again by how realistically he portrayed the thoughts and feelings of the female characters. Their depth is incredible and they feel as if they’ve been written by another woman. Whether or not I like them or agree with them, I find it easy to relate to and understand them. They aren’t stereotypes, they feel very real.
LOL! That’s so true. I never thought of it so lightheartedly. Yes, you’re ready to put Anna out of her misery by that time.
I read War and Peace two winters ago at work. It took six months but I really did enjoy it.
Only a regime like the Soviet Union can get tens of thousands of real soldiers to serve as extras for the awesome battle scenes from that movie. One of the few redeeming cultural achievements from the Soviet Union era.
Mel Gibson’s production company Icon film made a version of Anna Karenina with Sean Bean as Vronsky and Sophie Marceau as Anna. Worth watching as the the costumes and sets, filmed in Russian, are gorgeous.
“One of the few redeeming cultural achievements from the Soviet Union era.”
Well the music...
My comments were to those who regard reading as a worthwhile activity to begin with.
WATERLOO was also good. Battle scenes were awesome. And to think, NO COMPUTER GENERATED EFFECTS. That was a real army in the battles.
The American-Italian version, with Henry Fonda, from 1956 is like Cliff’s Notes compared to the Russian Russian Cinema Council version.
The Kultur full screen version is krap.
Reading Dostoevsky, on the other hand, was a revelation. I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything in literature that approaches the depth of The Grand Inquisitor section in The Brothers Karamazov.
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