When I read Anna Karenina I was about 19 years, I had to start university and I caught the book that Tolstoy showed skill in describing the character of Anna. I was always shocked that people can feel so good to the female soul. For the same reason I loved Lolita , Hedda Gabler, The Lady from the Sea especially Madame Bovary, one of
elle women more contemporary literary history (I can not enter Gone with the Wind list because the author is a woman but , ça va sans dire, resp ct for Scarlett:). The fact remains that what struck me most in Anna Karenina remains the very first sentence. A sentence that says everything and nothing, a phrase thrown at the beginning and che fa da brevissima presentazione non solo ad Anna Karenina ma a tutta una condizione umana. Praticamente, le rimanenti 1000 e passa pagine non sono che una delle infinite esteriorizzazioni di questa piccola e apparentemente innocua battuta iniziale.
«All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own»
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way instead."
Of course we must be able to take that 'happy' and that 'unfortunate' and adapt to our way of thinking. Who wants to translate the letter and take in the words of Tolstoy only a cosmic pessimism, sit down. I prefer if ntire something else, a vision and a strong anti-conformism and sensitive at the same time.
illustration Наталия Давыдова (Natalija Dadivoda)
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