Am watching a 70s-era BBC adaptation of Anna Karenina, because it has my woobie Eric Porter as Karenin. Do not ask me to explain this Eric Porter mania because it is in explicable. It simply is. (The voice. It's the voice.) Anyway. Amazingly talky screenplay, written by Donald Wilson, who also wrote the good Forsyte adaptation, the BBC 1967 version
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War and Peace I have not read at all. I think I gave up on Tolstoy after Anna. And yes, I have to find her insipid. Come on, chickie, go out and take charge of your destiny!
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I had to read a Classic Russian Novel as part of my AP Lit class in high school. I don't remember what I read, but I know I picked it from the list because it was the shortest. I feel your pain.
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:-))
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You can't really get more antithetical to American ideology. Our version would run; 'we'll strive to get to that distant place while the wolves are after us and if the wolves do get us before we can kill them, then we'll do our level best to keep them from getting there instead.'
Which is better? Who's to say? Personally, I can't stand victim mentality, so I'll go with the violence and selfishness, thanks. But our socialization definitely hampers our understanding of the lit.
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