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Creating Anna Karenina, Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine, Bob Blaisdell ; foreword by Boris Dralyuk

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Creating Anna Karenina

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Bob Blaisdell ; foreword by Boris Dralyuk

Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine

Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature. Readers often assume that Tolstoy, a nobleman-turned-mystic would write himself into the principled Levin. But in truth, Anna's fateful suicide is the road that Tolstoy nearly traveled himself. Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy's family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy's life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways. -- adapted from jacketIntroduction -- Readying for "a new big labor": September 1872-March 1873 -- A very very rough rough draft: March 18, 1873-June 2, 1873 -- Summering in Samara -- Distractions and family woes: August 22-December 31, 1873 -- Anna Karenina's false start: January 1-August 14, 1874 -- For love or money?: August 15-December 31, 1874 -- Anna Karenina: the serial: January-June 1875 -- Summer, Fall, Winter, 1875 -- The serialization of Anna Karenina resumes: January-May 1876 -- From idle to full steam ahead: June-December 1876 -- The end of serialization: January-May 1877 -- Suicidal tendencies -- Finishing off: May 7, 1877-January 1878

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Tolstoy and the birth of literature's most enigmatic heroine