Book Review: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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Book Review: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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A story worth the read. A story about different Russian lives in the 19th century. Different faith and fates. A story about marriage, life, and interpersonal and social conflict. Tolstoy is very meticulous about social, political, and economical problems of his time.

The first half is focused on the marital aspect family heavy. Throughout the discussion of religion and belief and faith. And then the second half is political discourse on war and serfdom.

Above all, this is a story on man’s freedom and confinement within himself and in regards to other and their society. There are a lot of clashing POV’s. The duality – Anna and Levin – reminds me to tragic-comedy. The balance is always restored. The end of marriage (and family) for Anna and the beginning of Levin’s. I would love to have seen a second shorter book on the lives of their children, on the social-political change in Russia following these families – a second generation. New hopes and new tragedies.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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