http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/11/20/anna-karenina
Greta Garbo played it. Vivien Leigh played it, after Gone with the Wind. Now it’s Keira Knightley’s star turn as Anna Karenina – the beautiful and doomed 19th century Russian aristocrat made slave to passion, desire, adultery.
The great Leo Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina not as a potboiler, but as vivid instruction on the power of love, right and wrong, human splendor, and human flaws. It raises what Russians call the Cursed Question: How should I live? Maybe David Patraeus should have read it. Maybe he did.
This hour, On Point: we’re rereading Anna Karenina.
-Tom Ashbrook
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