As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn¿t love you back (Turgenev¿s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov¿s work).
In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines these and other works, as well as the lives of their celebrated creators, and her own experiences as a student of Russian, to answer the question ¿How should you live your life?¿ This is a charming and fiercely intelligent book, a love letter to Russian literature and an exploration of the answers these writers found to life¿s questions.
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn¿t love you back (Turgenev¿s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov¿s work).
In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines these and other works, as well as the lives of their celebrated creators, and her own experiences as a student of Russian, to answer the question ¿How should you live your life?¿ This is a charming and fiercely intelligent book, a love letter to Russian literature and an exploration of the answers these writers found to life¿s questions.
| BN ID: | 2940169764642 |
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| Publisher: | Abrams Books |
| Publication date: | 10/30/2018 |
