I finished Anna Karenina just in time for this discussion and managed to snag a viewing of the new movie yesterday. Despite some of the heavy material within Anna Karenina, I thought it would be nice to keep our first book club discussion rather light. Did you like the novel? How'd you manage with the Russian names?If you'd like to engage in a deeper discussion:
-We read that it is unpleasant for Anna to read about other people's lives because she "wanted too much to live herself." Why are reading and living placed in opposition to one another?
-What effect does society have on limiting and fulfilling individual desires/satisfaction within the novel?
-What effect would removing Levin/Kitty's story from the novel have?
-Tolstoy originally meant the story as a cuat
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