![]() ![]() " Flaubert just exclaims, "What an artist and what a psychologist!" Virginia Woolf declares him "greatest of all novelists. ![]() Those great harvest scenes in Anna K., the hunting scenes, the skating scenes. ![]() Dostoyevsky, a contemporary, declared Anna Karenina perfect "as an artistic production." Proust calls Tolstoy "a serene god." Comparing his work to that of Balzac, he said, "In Tolstoi everything is great by nature-the droppings of an elephant beside those of a goat. Since Anna Karenina was published in 1877, almost everyone who matters in the history of literature has put in his two cents (and a few who stand out in other realms-from Matthew Arnold, who wrote a cogent essay in 1887 about "Count Tolstoy's" novel, to Lenin, who, while acknowledging his "first class works of world literature," refers to him as "a worn out sniveller who beat his breast and boasted to the world that he now lived on rice patties"). makes the word order sound as natural in English as was the original in Tolstoy's Russian.” - The Times Literary Supplement “Kyril Zinovieff has produced a fine, intelligent, sensitive translation that brings the Russian text alive in a way that immediately enriches a reader's awareness of its intentions and nuances.” - East West Review About the Author I don’t know any other writer who is so adept at peopling their pages.” - Maggie O’Farrell “Tolstoy is the greatest Russian writer of prose fiction.” - Vladimir Nabokov “The new translation into accurate and readable English by Kyril Zinovieff and Jenny Hughes surpasses even the most recent version by Richard Pevear and Melissa Volokhonsky. They have complete passions: a desire for love, but also an inner moral depth.” - Malcolm Bradbury “It’s so fantastic that it can be read over and over again. His characters are well-rounded presences. His world is huge and vast, filled with complex family lives and great social events. This novel contains a humane message that has not yet been heeded in Europe and that is much needed by the people of the western world.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky “What I confidently named the greatest social novel of world literature is in fact a novel against society.” - Thomas Mann “Tolstoy’s greatness lies in not turning the story into sentimental tragedy. ![]() “The truth is we are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art: we are to take it as a piece of life.” - Matthew Arnold “Anna Karenina is a perfect work of art. ![]()
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