Anna Karenina

Seeburger (1993) ignores this point "What counts in addiction is that one relates to something, whether a substance, a process, a relationship, or whatever, in such a way that one experiences oneself as unable to do without it" (58-59). So much for grand passion (for Vronsky and Anna Karenina) as well as the ideals and attachments of everyday life. 

L. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, in J. Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 12th edition, p. 1192. 

Vladimir Nabokov included Tolstoy in his seminar on modernism held at Cornell University. Anna Karenina goes under a train. 

THOREAU Walden and Civil Disobedience edited by Owen Thomas TOLSTOY Anna Karenina (the Maude translation) edited by George Gibian TOLSTOY War and Peace (the Maude translation) edited by George Gibian TURGENEV Fathers and Sons edited with a substantially new translation by Ralph E. Matlaw... 

GEORGE GIBIAN is Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian Literature at Cornell University. He has also taught at Smith, Amherst, and Berkeley. He frequently journeys to the USSR to stay in touch with Soviet critical opinion, and is an expert on dissident literature. He has edited Norton Critical Editions of Dostoevsky s Crime, and Punishment and of Tolstoy s and Peace and Anna Karenina. He is the author of Russia s Lost Literature of the Absurd and Tolstoy and Shakespeare. 

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