Anna Karenina 安娜卡列尼娜 －［情人节特别专题］文学史上最美的10个爱情故事 （2）

Anna Karenina: Love can be a train wreck.

Frequently a top author’s choice, this Tolstoy novel is a literary soap opera. Set in the highest circles of Russian society, Anna Karenina visits her brother Stiva in Moscow to help him save his marriage. While there, she falls in love with Count Vronsky. A married woman, Karenina fights off her desires until they overwhelm her and she leaves her husband, Alexei. Denied a divorce, Anna spends her life looking for acceptance in her relationship. When the strain of their love life becomes too much, Anna leaves Vronsky in a rage and well, if you haven’t read it, do! We won’t give away a heart-wrenching ending.

安娜·卡列尼娜》是俄国著名作家列夫·托尔斯泰的代表作品，在19世纪的世界文坛堪称首屈一指的优秀作品。本书通过女主人公安娜追求爱情的悲剧，和列文在农村面临危机而进行的改革与探索这两条线索，描绘了俄国从莫斯科到外省乡村广阔而丰富多彩的图景，先后描写了150多个人物，是一部社会百科全书式的作品。

贵族妇女安娜追求爱情幸福，却在卡列宁的虚伪、沃伦斯基的冷漠和自私面前碰得头破血流，最终落得卧轨自杀、陈尸车站的下场。庄园主莱温反对土地私有制，抵制资本主义制度，同情贫苦农民，却又无法摆脱贵族习气而陷入无法解脱的矛盾之中。矛盾的时期、矛盾的制度、矛盾的人物、矛盾的心理，使全书在矛盾的漩涡中颠簸。这部小说是新旧交替时期紧张惶恐的俄国社会的写照。

Quotes:

1. 1. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way 幸福的家庭都是相似的，不幸的家庭各有各的不幸

2. 2.“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” 若追求完美，你永远都不会满意

3. 3.“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” 我想，世上有多少颗头颅就有多少种思想；那么也就是说，世上有多少颗心就有多少种爱

4. 4. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” 尊重是发明出来去填补爱的空白的。

5. 5. “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." 爱。我不喜欢这个词是因为它对我来说有太多含义了，比你想的要多得多。

6. 6. “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”属于生命的 一切多样性，一切魅力，一切美好，都是由光和影构成的。

7. 7. “But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.” 爱的法则是无法用理性来追寻的，因为它本身就是无理的。

8. 8. “He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.” 他望着她像一个男人看着他采摘的逝去的花朵，无法认识她的美丽，只因是他亲手将她摘下摧毁。他明白，当他爱得最深时，若他想要，他可以全身而退。而现在，虽然他感受不到对她任何的爱，他知道他与她互相牵绊，那命运永世无法逃脱。

9. 9. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” 他走下来，努力着不去看她，就好像她是太阳。但是，就像太阳，他不需要去看都能感到她的存在。

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Film adaptation

Anna Karenina is a 2012 film, directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson.