Tolstoy encourages us: Dig deeper. Try harder. Aim higher. Pay more attention to the world around you and you will see that it is like a huge orchestra, a grand musical symphony made up of unique melodies, ratios, and diversities that appear again and again, and that sometimes we notice, but they exist in our subconscious even without us. Francine Prose, American author
Anna Karenina is a masterpiece that travels from generation to generation, carrying timeless concerns throughout the ages. An epic work, with immense range and depth of themes, where drama, morality, and philosophical reflection are in perfect balance. How should we live our lives when our dearest illusions are shattered? Which beliefs should we then cling to? There’s a question… A novel about the meaning of life and happiness.
Tolstoy teaches that humanity's eternal mistake is to equate their happiness with the fulfillment of their desires. At the same time, through simple events, Tolstoy weaves a profound and timeless novel about the thorny issues of life and religious faith.
With the dramatic confrontations of the characters, Anna Karenina rises to high art. The heroes and themes of the book transcend their temporal and spatial boundaries, as they represent humanity's eternal struggle to understand the mystery of life while reconciling with the reality of death.
