Overview
Together with the monumental War and Peace, Anna Karenina is one of Leo Tolstoy’s most important works and a classic of Russian realism. It contains all the hallmarks of that genre, from pointed social critique to psychologically complex characters. Anna Karenina#&39;s misadventures and eagerness to integrate into a hypocritical society that condemns her for adultery, but pardons her lover#&39;s excesses, offer a portrait of nineteenth-century Russia in all its contradictions. It also encourages us to reflect on the way women are invisibilized in society.
Author Biography
Leo Tostoy was a nineteenth-century Russian novelist. His books include War and Peace and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.