What does it mean to write a masterpiece of foreign literature Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's second landmark novel**, written between 1873 and 1877. The work is composed of two parallel and interrelated threads: one is the family, marriage and love entanglement between Anna and Karenin and Vronsky; One is the love life of Levin and Gidi and the manor reform carried out by Levin.

Anna is an upper-class noblewoman, young and beautiful, who pursues the liberation of personality and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. Once at the station, Anna meets the young officer Vronsky, who is attracted by her beauty and desperately pursues her. In the end, Anna fell in love and resolutely abandoned her husband and children to live with Vronsky.

But the longing for her son and the pressures of her surroundings plunged her into pain and uneasiness, and she gradually discovered that Vronsky was not an ideal person for passion. After losing her son and the last pillar of her spirit, Vronsky, after a verbal altercation with Vronsky, Anna found that she could no longer live in this hypocritical society, and in despair, she chose to commit suicide by lying on the rails. ** It exposes the ugliness and hypocrisy of the Russian high society in the sixties and seventies of the 19th century, and also expresses the author's complex moral and ideological explorations in the period of social transition.

It is a sad story of a woman and several men.

The author of "Anna Karenina" is Leo Tolstoy.

Born into an aristocratic family, Leo Tolstoy entered Kazan University in 1844 and left school in 1847 to return to his homeland to try to reform serfdom in his own territory. 1851 1854 year served in the army of the Caucasus and began to write.

1854 In 1855 he took part in the Crimean War, and in November 1855 he went to St. Petersburg to enter the literary world. When Tolstoy went abroad in 1857, he saw the contradictions of capitalist society, but could not find a way to eliminate the evils of society, so he had to call on people to live according to "eternal religious truths".

1860 In 1861, Tolstoy went abroad again to study European education, met Herzen, listened to Dickens, and met Proudhon. 1863 In 1869, Tolstoy wrote the long history ** War and Peace. 1873 In 1877 he completed his second landmark work, Anna Karenina, with 12 revisions.

Leo Tolstoy's artistic features:

The main characteristic of Tolstoy's style is simplicity. Striving to reflect the truth of life or express one's thoughts to the fullest and most accurately, therefore, although it is strict in art, it does not simply win by skill, does not pursue formal refinement, nor avoids lengthy compound sentences, but only seeks the greatest expressiveness.

In his later years, he tried to be concise in his psychological analysis, not writing about the whole process of feelings, but only about the main links of each stage of the psychological process; Sometimes a theatrical approach is taken, expressed through action and dialogue.

Instead of writing about the sequential development of the character, write about the decisive transformation caused by a sudden accident. Structurally, in order to show the awakening of the characters, the method of flashbacks is often used; In order to concentrate, the long-form ** no longer uses multiple clues, but uses a single clue gradually. In terms of language, it strives to be simple and concise and easy to understand, close to folk tales.

Tolstoy's second landmark novel**, written in 1875-1877. The work is made up of two threads that are both parallel and interconnected: one.

Rongtiao is the love, family and marital entanglement between Anna and Karenin and Vronsky; One is the love life of Levin and Kitty and the manor reform carried out by Levin. Anna is an upper-class noblewoman, young and beautiful, who pursues the liberation of personality and freedom of love, while her husband is a "bureaucratic machine" with an indifferent temperament. Once at the station, she met the young officer Vronsky.

The latter was attracted by her beauty and pursued it desperately. In the end, Anna fell in love and resolutely abandoned her husband and children to live with Vronsky. But the longing for her son and the pressure of her surroundings plunged her into pain and insecurity.

After a verbal altercation with Vronsky, she felt that she could no longer live in this hypocritical society, and committed suicide by lying on the rails. ** It exposes the ugliness and hypocrisy of the upper class, and also expresses the writer's complex moral exploration and ideological exploration.