![]() Help of a priest, and trying to find a governess to tend to his growing family. The latter situation had gotten particularly desperate Tolstoy wrote to aįriend begging for references. “Nationality is of no matter: German, French,Įnglish, Russian-as long as it’s European andĬhristian. ![]() House torn to pieces by a governess’s dismissal Stress in mind when he decided to open Anna Karenina with the story of a Salary-everything I can give.” Blaisdell wonders if Tolstoy had this (though of course in the novel it happens under more adulterous circumstances). Novels was in fact just as much a product of everyday minutia-like who stops byįor a visit with what kind of gossip to tell-as it was the culmination of In its study of theĬomings and goings of the Tolstoy household at the time of the novel’sĬomposition, Creating Anna Karenina asks if one of the world’s greatest It is a big stretch, and Blaisdell knows as much, but hisīook is more of a playful experiment than a strict study. Specifically, a consideration of how distractions, familial interference, and Ways more instructive about the creative process than about Anna Karenina Long-simmering ideas about morality and desire. ![]() The inspiration behind the character of Anna Karenina Side projects resulted in Tolstoy writing one of the world’s greatest novels. Is widely considered to be a 37-year-old woman named Anna Stepanova, who workedĪs a housekeeper for one of Tolstoy’s neighbors. ![]() With jealousy that she threw herself under a train but She and her husband regularlyĪrgued about his flirtations with governesses. ![]() Not before sending off a letter addressed to her husband, which reportedly read, “You are my killer you will be happy with her if murderers can be happy. ![]()
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