Very excited to be live-blogging my reading of Anna Karenina. Here's what happened in Chapter 1.
-We meet our narrator, who lays down his thesis that all happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own. I've forgotten most of the Tolstoy I read in college, but I remember his narrators were not afraid to jump in and lecture, set boundaries, explore the mind and past of characters.
-We meet Oblonsky, who wakes in his study and feels awful for having cheated on his wife with a French maid, which has caused havoc in his family. Poor fella!
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