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We loved the story and the characters, but we had never heard of Flaubert or Tolstoy.
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.
Much of the essay takes Du Bois to task for his "inadequate interpretation of the human condition"--translation: Du Bois didn't fight hard enough for the rights of women, homosexuals, and other oppressed minorities and doesn't seem to have thought much about writers like Tolstoy or Kafka--and his "inability to immerse himself fully in the rich cultural currents of black everyday life."
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.
Tolstoy's rendering of Anna Karenina's magic in her black ball gown, or of Princess Betsy's décolletage at the theater, stand out as examples, along with Henry James' magnificent glancing allusions to the emotional power generated by a rustle, a ribbon, the drawing on of a pair of gloves.