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  1. Feb 10, 2022 · The New Yorker explains that Tolstoy's novel isn't just about infidelity or even love. It explores the consequences of our emotional attachments, both familial and romantic. A superficial reading of the novel sees Anna as a heroine, a woman who follows her heart and is willing to pay the ultimate price.

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    • Greta Garbo. The legendary actress actually played Anna Karenina twice. First, in the silent movie ‘Love’ (1927), where her partner was John Gilbert, with whom Greta had a relationship with in real life – sadly for him, she broke up with Gilbert in quite a dramatic way at the altar!
    • Vivien Leigh. Nine years after her star role as Scarlett O'Hara, Vivien Leigh played Anna Karenina (1948), a woman as passionate and determined. However, the movie by French director Julien Duvivier wasn’t very successful at the box office.
    • Zully Moreno. The star of Argentinian cinema’s ‘golden age’, beautiful Zuly Moreno starred in ‘Prohibited Love’ (1955). Tolstoy’s narrative was moved to the realities of Argentina in the 1950s.
    • Tatiana Samoilova. Soviet ‘Anna Karenina’ (1967) by Alexander Zarkhi is still considered one of the more exemplary adaptations – not least thanks to the brilliant acting by Tatiana Samoilova (she was also the star of the 1957 movie ‘The Cranes Are Flying’, the only Russian winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival).
  2. Wright’s “Anna Karenina” isn’t a straight-forward adaptation of the novel, but a fanciful, expressionistic reinterpretation of it, with a knowing, self-conscious screenplay by Tom Stoppard ...

  3. Levin’s younger brother dies, and Kitty becomes pregnant. Anna and Vronsky enjoy blissful travels together, but Vronsky, despite his love for Anna, soon becomes bored and misses his ambitious professional life. As the novel reaches its climax, Anna becomes increasingly paranoid and miserable. Karenin, under the influence of a manipulative ...

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    Yet “family” is far from the only theme in the novel. Both Tolstoy and his writing are striking for their preoccupation with significant issues affecting humanity, then and now: nationalism (which Tolstoy foregrounded in War and Peace), spirituality, pacifism, brotherhood, agriculture and modernisation (read: technology). In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’...

    Yet, perhaps because it was a genuine and essential aspect of Tolstoy’s own world view, moral judgment is always present in his writing. Though not spelled out, this judgment is implied by unavoidable cause and effect in human actions. In Anna’s case her passion for Vronsky results in a sexual liaison that leads to the breakdown of her marriage, se...

    Anna Karenina has generated four ballets, six stage plays, ten operas and 16 films. English-language versions include a 1935 black-and-white film starring Greta Garbo – much treasured despite the incompatibility between Garbo’s signature languor and Tolstoy’s emphasis on the title character’s “suppressed animation”. More recently, a 2012 British fi...

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  4. A French psychic who instructs Karenin to reject Anna’s plea for a divorce. A list of all the characters in Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina characters include: Anna Karenina, Konstantin Levin, Alexei Karenin, Alexei Vronsky, Stiva Oblonsky.

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  6. Nov 2, 2012 · Anna Karenina, for example, the title heroine of the magisterial 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy, thinks herself happy enough with her distinguished husband, her sweet-tempered young son and her ...

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