Anna Karenina

Although from its appearance it was received like a reaction against the French naturalistic movement, Tolstoy follows in Anna Karénina the naturalism ways until overcome, when not considering this one an end in itself. Classified as the last novel of the author's first style, it is the first in which the continuous moral crisis that the writer suffered at that time is revealed. Anna Karenina, shocking story of adultery in the field of Russian high society of the time. In it Tolstoy reflects his vision of urban society, a symbol of vices and sin, as opposed to the healthy life of nature and the countryside. Ana Karenina is a victim of that foolish and pathological world of the city, which has become a key figure in world literature.