Review: It's Levin's Story for Me
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2013
I found Anna Karenina fascinating because it rang true for me. On the one hand, Anna herself, contrary to my expectations turned out to be a self-absorbed, completely destructive personality who in the end seemed incapable of loving either of the two men who, in their own ways, loved her. Worse yet, she in essence abandons both of her children. In the end, her physical beauty saved no one.Her polar opposite Levin, on the other hand, eventually finds happiness because, in spite of his weaknesses and self doubt, loves Kitty and the peasants who work his farm with him even when initially neither fully appreciates him. In the current entertainment waste land our culture seems to produce, Levin is a character who shines for me.. I am sure that this is, in some way, reading the novel at its most obvious level, but, for me, that was the source of its pleasure.