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Realism as imagism: Nabokov ‘modernizes’ Tolstoy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Įikhenbaum, B. The hedgehog and the fox: An essay on Tolstoy’s view of history. A recent discussion that applies the epigraph even more immediately to the novel would be Boot, who asserts “it is not God’s vengeance that strikes Anna down but Tolstoy’s own” ( 2009, p. To support this accusation, the essay surprisingly focuses on Vronsky rather than Anna, as well as on Pierre in War and Peace and on Nekhliudov in Resurrection. See, for example, Lawrence’s iconoclastic manifesto, “The Novel,” which undercuts his praise for Tolstoy’s vividly depicted characters with the complaint that he “loved to kill them off or muss them over” ( 1925, p. At times, in a gross distortion of Tolstoy’s attitude, some readers have even assumed that he wrote the novel to exact vengeance on Anna by having her throw herself beneath the train. Paul has caused some readers who did not recognize the epigraph’s biblical origin, and who may also have been misled by translations lacking the biblical flavor of Tolstoy’s wording, to read these initial words as a vindictive outburst. Ironically, however, Tolstoy’s editing of St.

The issues explored range from the power of compassionate forbearance and the problematic impact of authoritative words on people’s behavior to social ostracism, the transience of peak experiences, and the anguish of losing one’s capacity to forgive, not just other people, but-tragically-one’s very self. Emphasis falls on Anna and her husband Karenin, but the discussion also includes telling episodes involving Dolly Oblonsky (Anna’s sister-in-law) and Konstantin Lyovin, Anna’s counterpart in the novel’s second plot. This paper considers the implications of this ambiguity by examining the dialectic of vengeance and mercy that runs through Tolstoy’s novel. As is seen in Vronsky’s mother’s harsh condemnation of Anna near the novel’s end, such language allow for pitiless self-righteousness to overwhelm the true goal of humble forgiveness. The Lord’s power to avenge wrongdoing, which asks that human beings strive to be merciful, can become the prerogative of any first-person subject. As a result, these opening words allow for major ambiguities in understanding the motives of the novel’s characters. Tolstoy’s famous novel begins with an epigraph, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” which leaves out the purported speaker of these words in Romans 12:19 (“sayeth the Lord”).

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