Lit thoughts about Tolstoj?

>Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj
Is like a Slavic Latin alphabet spelling as you might find in Croatia.

Why?

It's the work of Tolstoy's that possessed the strongest sense of human feeling that I've encountered.

I started reading Anna Karenina when I was 19, and didn't get it at all, so I stopped reading it. I liked all the chapters with Levin and thought that all the chapters with Anna Karenina were irrelevant. Some years later I learned that they symbolise the old and new Russia, and ever since, I've been meaning to read it again.

OP's native language is Swedish, we write Tolstoj. In Swedish transliteration, y is used to represent ы.

We write Tolstoj, Dostojevskij, Gorkij, Tjernysjevskij, and so on, and so on.

Yes indeed.

The narrator in AK is mostly bland, yes, but that allows you to see into the characters and events more clearly and objectively. I don't believe that you felt nothing while reading the spectacular opening description of the chaos in the Oblonsky family, or the scene of Karenin holding Vronsky's hand and forgiving them while Anna was dying, or the final part where Levin is desperately searching for meaning. It's the characters and their inner dramas that truly matter in AK, you have to really enter their minds to appreciate the work.

His early stories about the Cossack/Chechen frontier are surprisingly comfy reads that mix soldierly camaraderie, native hospitality, and acute observation, with poetic descriptions of the land. The Cossacks, The Raid, The Woodfelling, and so on.

>I don't believe that you felt nothing while reading the spectacular opening description of the chaos in the Oblonsky family, or the scene of Karenin holding Vronsky's hand and forgiving them while Anna was dying, or the final part where Levin is desperately searching for meaning.

I promise I didn't. I enjoyed the parts with Levin the most, but only as something amusing, never anything really emotional. I don't have a problem with inner dramas and entering minds, I just didn't care for what I've read from him so far.

I havent read any of Tolstoy but I have seen AK and WAP as plays which was really good. I liked war and peace more though.

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