The little white attic

1/ Nabokov’s lecture on Anna Karenina (from Lectures on Russian Literature ) is a great companion to Tolstoy’s novel. One of his most inter...

1/ In the previous blog post, I wrote that Tolstoy didn’t seem to allow Anna sexual pleasure.  Look at this line about Levin and his wife Ki...

1/ In Part 4 chapter 12, in the dinner scene, Tolstoy has a minor character called Pestsov say “inequality in marriage lay in the fact that ...

1/ Perhaps I sound like a fangirl but one of the things I’ve noticed, rereading Anna Karenina , is that Tolstoy is not as preachy and didact...

1/ I have been rereading Anna Karenina but not written a word, because of writer’s block.  8 years since I first read the novel, 8 years si...