Anna Karenina
18.04.2007 - 02:20 / Kategoriat: Romaanit
Sometimes it happens that I don't like the main character of the book at all. It doesn't necessarily mean that the book is not good. It can also mean that even when I hate the main character I love other persons in the book. "Anna Karenina" was exactly like that.
I read "Anna Karenina" maybe eight years ago and at that time I couldn't care less about this stupid woman. I had no sympathy for her at all. And this Vronsky! Why in the earth would someone fell in love with him? Ridiculos!
But I still loved the book. I loved it because, if I counted Anna and Vronsky out, all the rest of the characters were lovely! I liked very much of Anna's brother Stiva and I really, really loved Levin who was married with Kitty. Levin was such a great man, he should have been the main lover in the book. But what can you do? Great writers and the literature history doesn't always agree with me...
The book has also one of the greatest beginning sentences in history. Who remembers how it goes?
I read "Anna Karenina" maybe eight years ago and at that time I couldn't care less about this stupid woman. I had no sympathy for her at all. And this Vronsky! Why in the earth would someone fell in love with him? Ridiculos!
But I still loved the book. I loved it because, if I counted Anna and Vronsky out, all the rest of the characters were lovely! I liked very much of Anna's brother Stiva and I really, really loved Levin who was married with Kitty. Levin was such a great man, he should have been the main lover in the book. But what can you do? Great writers and the literature history doesn't always agree with me...
The book has also one of the greatest beginning sentences in history. Who remembers how it goes?
(Hmm, that sounds kind of fatal...)
Terje, sometimes there are books where you are supposed to hate the main characten (well, "American Psycho" for example) but I think that in "Anna Karenina" reader is supposed to like Anna and feel sympahty for her...
About hated characters: I have read Gone With the Wind for some times and seen the movie even more often, but neither for a long long time. Now that I watched the movie again after many years, I noticed that Scarlett annoys me. When I was younger I liked her very much and saw similarity between her and me. Not so much anymore! I am sure it would be the same way if I read the book again now. So it seems that you might start to (almost) hate the characters you have loved, and it must also be vice versa.
(Can you see me growing here?!)
Että sellanen pohdinta!
Ps. Soundtrack when reading Anna Karenina should be Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil, then!
Luckily I still love the dresses and Rhett so much that movie is always worth of watching. (I haven't ever read the book...)