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14223106 No.14223106 [Reply] [Original]

>200 pages about farming.
Ah, now THAT'S literature

>> No.14223118

you’re a woman, arn’t you?

>> No.14223237

I'm a city dude and found it pleasant and warm to read. Tolstoy preemptively btfo bugmen almost 2 centuries ago

>> No.14224536

>>14223106
I saw this same thread but with cetology and Moby-Dick, does this mean I'll love Anna Karenina too?

>> No.14224555

>>14223106
Thanks I just ordered it

>> No.14225932

>>14223106

Tolstoi is mostly a prime example of naturalism/ realism; what exactly did you expect, anon?

>> No.14225954

The bits where Tolstoy's aristocratic stand-in rhapsodies lyrical over how rewarding it is to be a penniless tenant farmer are pretty cringe tbqh

>> No.14225972

>>14223106
It is depending on how you articulate it. Tolstoy articulated it masterfully.

>> No.14226002

>>14223106
im finally gonna take this off my bookshelf. thanks op

>> No.14226019

>>14224536
It's not really the same thing at all. Tostoy does go into some detail about how farming works but only to provide context for his characters.

>> No.14226128

>>14225954
Aristocrats have been idealizing the peasant life since the 17th century. Even today you see bugmen going to their office job wearing 400$ mock work boots

>> No.14226979

>>14226128
>Courtiers at the Palace of Versailles constantly surrounded Marie Antoinette, leaving her in need of a refuge. She escaped the responsibilities and structure of court life to her private estate. The Hamlet was part of Marie Antoinette's estate, and she enjoyed dressing as a young shepherdess or milkmaid and acting like a peasant, while surrounded by the comforts of a royal lifestyle. This unintentional mockery of the economically depressed French peasants helped build the resentment towards the monarchy among the French people, eventually leading to the French Revolution.

>> No.14227107

>>14226979
based

>> No.14227115
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14227115

>200 pages about sewer systems
Thanks Hugo!

>> No.14227123
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>> No.14227471

For those of you reading this that are contemplating reading AK, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

>> No.14227485

>>14227471

I'm nearly done with Tolstoy's Childhood trilogy do I immediately jump into Anna Karenina next or save it for when it snows?

>> No.14227488

>>14226979
Marie Antoinette's killers should have been gutted like the animals they were. It's amazing that people are so credulous as to believe half of the calumnies about her.

>> No.14227516

>>14227488
Pretty sure they were anon, or at least guillotined

>> No.14227633

>>14226979
>believing Anglo propaganda
Those same people called Spaniards the nation of niggers when the rest of Europe didn't approve of wanton English piracy in the Carribean. They did the same to the Russian imperial house, and then to Nazi leadership.

>> No.14227702

>>14227485
don't be such a girl

>> No.14227709

>>14227633
Why would the Anglo propaganda be against the Bourbons? They were in favour of the Bourbon dynasty against the revolution and fought for decades to restore them to the French throne.

>> No.14227737

>>14223106
Funnily enough it's the best part of the book.