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To paraphrase Tolstoy paraphrasing Pushkin: All grammatical expressions resemble each other; each ungrammatical expression is ungrammatical in its own way.
The venerable Tolstoy, a secular saint in his time, called on him more than once; Tchaikovsky contemplated writing an opera with him at one time.
But the essay's example was Tolstoy's use of Natasha Rostova in War and Peace . At Tolstoy's balls, teas, and operas, even jaded readers get to see everything anew--because we see it through Natasha's gushing teeny-bopper heart.
Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.