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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, tr. Constance Garnett

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[bookpillows]

Some part of us always sheds tears when we see lovely things—they make us regretful.

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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one fun thing about reading anna karenina in russian is that tolstoy’s use of repetition definitely sticks out to me a lot more, probably partially because i’m more on the lookout for it but also because I’m always desperately seeking familiar words so i can understand wtf is happening in the text better

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does a novel have to be making a point about christianity or atheism or the immorality of high society? is it not enough to have four characters caught up in a codependent fucked up relationship web that inevitably leads to their destruction?

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daily shoutout to pushkin for making the duel in eugene onegin fruity as fuck so that all future russian authors in the petersburg school would also write fruity duels