Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 1878
Devastation Rating
love loss literary fiction historical
Our Take
Society as killing machine, and Anna walks into it willingly, beautifully, catastrophically. Tolstoy gives her desire and fire, then watches the world crush it. The train was always coming. The tragedy is not the ending but the slow suffocation that made the ending feel like relief.
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