To summarize this book is an impossible task. It took a massive part of my Summer to get through it, but I managed, and I am now proud and happy to declare that I have finally read Anna Karenina. What an achievement for a bookworm! But today I have no idea what to tell you about this novel. As I started with, this book is impossible to summarize. The characters are too numerous, the twists too crazy and, once again, numerous, and the feelings which emanate from it too hard to even start to explain.
Well, from this perspective, I have nothing to tell you about my reading. That's a lie, I have actually loads to say, even if I can't summarize or tell anything about the plot. Tolstoi's book is all about the Russian high society, how they interact, how they live, what is at steak in their lives, and what do those people feel. Many other characters from various spheres of the society are also depicted by the novelist, who perfectly explains the social gaps and relationships between them. Yet the focus is still the nobility, obviously Anna Karenina herself, and the other characters whom are gravitating around her and interacting in her story. What a character. Anna is a woman you fall in love with, a woman you hate few chapters later, and most of all, a woman you understand and identify to. I understood her feelings, her anger and her love, her sadness and her craziness. Tolstoi achieved to build a real human character. Not only a character coming out of a novel, but a real woman, whom could be your friend, your sister, yourself. She is real because she feels and has sometimes the impossibility to explain what she feels, like any human does. But Anna is not the only master piece of the novel. Each character embodies to the perfection the human conditions, the questions we are asking ourselves, the feelings we are trying to reach, or to avoid.
Life and its meaning are questioned all along this book, and more that telling the story of characters, this novel becomes a philosophical one, one which makes you stop reading and think. Think about life, think about your condition, about who you are, what you are doing, what you want. That is why Anna Karenina is such a masterpiece, such a reference in the literature sphere. It is because it is more than words, more than a story printed on paper. It is a life lesson, a book that changes the way you see life, the way you live it. Every character is an example and teaches you something, every character is a little bit of you.
xo
Amy
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