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Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина, IPA: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) [1] is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.. Tolstoy called it his first true nove
Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878) [7] are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction [2] and two of the greatest novels ever written. [3] [4] His oeuvre includes short stories such as "Alyosha the Pot" (1905) and "After the Ball" (1911) and novellas such as Family Happiness (1859), The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) and ...
Bartlett graduated from Durham University with a first-class degree in Russian. [2] She went on to complete a doctorate at Oxford University. [3] Rosamund Bartlett is the author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life (2010) and translated Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for Oxford University Press (2014).
During World War II Rosemary Edmonds was translator to General de Gaulle at Fighting France Headquarters in London, and after Liberation, in Paris. [2] After this Penguin Books commissioned a series of translations from her. Tolstoy was her speciality. [3] Her translation of Anna Karenina, entitled Anna Karenin, appeared in 1954.
Individually, Pevear has also translated into English works from French, Italian, and Greek. The couple's collaborative translations have been nominated three times and twice won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov).
At the end of the century, some of the most widely read Russian literary figures focused on feminist motifs in their works. In his later years, Leo Tolstoy argued against the traditional institution of marriage, comparing it to forced prostitution and slavery, a theme that he also touched on in his novel Anna Karenina. [17]
I checked Wikipedia's article in ANNA KARENINA in several languages: French, German, Italian. They all use the English nicknames "Kitty" and "Dolly" for Ekaterina and Darya, presumably reflecting how the novel is translated in those languages. So I guess that even in Russian, Tolstoy had the English nicknames in mind.
Anna Karenina is an opera in two acts by American composer David Carlson, [1] based on the 1877 novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, commissioned by Florida Grand Opera to celebrate the 2007 opening of the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, [1] co-commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.