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Tolstoy novel Jiang treats as one of the greatest novels and as a diagnosis of Europeanization corrupting the Russian soul.
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Anna Karenina
Tolstoy novel Jiang treats as one of the greatest novels and as a diagnosis of Europeanization corrupting the Russian soul.
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Anna Karenina, in Jiang's reading, seeks God-like meaning in an affair because modernity has killed God and redirected spiritual hunger into sex and lust.
method
Jiang's own rewrite externalizes Anna's future self as a hallucinated spiritual figure, which he says gives more insight into the human psyche than flat modern narration.
diagnosis
Jiang reads Anna Karenina's opening as showing Russianization or Europeanization as a corruption of the Russian soul through imported French/European aristocratic manners.
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Jiang says Anna Karenina fails because she mistakes possession for love; love requires giving, trust, and respect for the heart rather than using another person to fill one's void.
model
Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina inherit this Dutch problem: middle-class life demands sanctity and order while oppressing people through taboos and boundaries.
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"can't keep up he's he's exhausted by the demands of anna karina so this is what she says before she kills herself my love..."
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"happens when we stop believing in the spiritual what happens when we disconnect from the right hemisphere of our brain we clutter our brains..."
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"now she's looking for god in affairs in sex in lust and that's why she can't find it okay all right so what i'm..."
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"anna asked where's wronski anna shouted she looked around the train station was empty okay you know where he is the older anna said..."
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"...human tradition. All right, so Toy Story's most famous novel is Anna Karenina, which is considered also the greatest work of literature, the greatest..."
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"...Oblotsky, the husband, they are now engaged in a divorce. And Anna Karenina will come from St. Petersburg to try to reconcile husband and..."
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"Petersburg. She asks for divorce. The husband won't give it to her. And then she slowly falls into depression. And then she commits to..."
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"And then we have been irresistibly driven in different directions. And there's no altering that. He tells me I'm insanely jealous. And I have..."
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"Also a huge problem for Anna Karina is... Because she betrayed her husband... She now fears that... That Bronski will now betray her. Okay?..."
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"...And then most famously, the most famous novel of all time, Anna Karenina, right? That middle class life, it's fundamentally hypocritical. So, on the..."
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"...is something that Toy Story talks also about in his book, Anna Karenina."
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"Okay? So, we're going to read a passage from Anna Karenina. And Anna Karenina is a woman who's obsessed with finding love. And she..."
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