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[Anonymous No.21285572]

>One dream haunted her almost every night. She dreamed that both were her husbands at once, that both were lavishing caresses on her. Alexey Alexandrovitch was weeping, kissing her hands, and saying, “How happy we are now!” And Alexey Vronsky was there too, and he too was her husband. And she was marveling that it had once seemed impossible to her, was explaining to them, laughing, that this was ever so much simpler, and that now both of them were happy and contented.

[Anonymous No.21285585]

God I fucking hate Ana Karenina. At least she kills herself.

[S10241875 No.21285606]

I never understood what prevented them from living as one family. Karenin and Vronsky could well have had an excellent bromance.

[Anonymous No.21285667]

>>21285606
No, Alexei hated Vronsky even before the affair as was made clear. The men were totally different temperaments

[Anonymous No.21285686]

>>21285572
Why are 19th century literary soap operas considered masterpieces but TV dramas are considered drivel?

[Anonymous No.21285706]

>>21285572
Tolstoy is the first author that I know off who makes his characters dream in realistic fashion.

[Anonymous No.21285710]

>>21285686
I don’t think I would characterize it as a soap opera, a soap opera is a serial with characters, mostly 10/10 looks unless very old, constantly swapping relationships. Some 19th Century novels are like that but Tolstoy is not for the most part focused on constantly changing relationships but problematic ones, and his characterization and dialogue is very realistic whereas characters in soap operas have corny, low quality dialogue and shallow characterization

[Anonymous No.21285729]

>>21285686
This is your brain on plotfaggotry.

[Anonymous No.21285735]

>>21285686
This is like calling war novels action movies