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The silent revolution caused by the behaviour of the unfaithful Anna Karenina involved Russian readers in the second half of the nineteenth century, and later came into surface in ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’. Anna showed a new possible way of union based on feelings and the Great Reform created the conditions to realize it. In this way the transition from the aristocratic marriage of convenience to the...
Anna Karenina is not only a novel about the family, but also a seismograph of its time. In particular, it shows the crisis that the institution of arranged marriage was going through in the second half of the19th century. The novel offers a new possible model for how a couple might behave, and anticipates the future bourgeois marriage that Tolstoi will depict in The Kreutzer Sonata. In a literary-centric...
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