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🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. |
0:10.0 | Hello, in 1870, 42-year-old Russian author, Leo Tolstoy told his wife that he had a new idea for a novel, |
0:17.8 | one that would depict the fall of a woman from the highest ranks of St. Petersburg society, and to do so without condemning her. |
0:25.7 | That book was Anna Karanina and is routinely viewed as one of the pinnacles of Western literature |
0:31.7 | and indeed of Western civilization. We've talked about Tolstoy before but we have a |
0:36.9 | special look at the novel today thanks to our guest Mike Palandrome, the |
0:40.8 | president of the Literature Supporters Club |
0:43.0 | who recently read the book as part of an online project, |
0:46.0 | in which hundreds of readers read the book in short installments every day, |
0:50.0 | tweeting about their responses. |
0:52.0 | Anna Karenina with Mike Palandrome today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson, your host, Anna Karenina. |
1:18.0 | There are very few novels you can put in this category. You could say a work like Ulysses is superior because it's more formally innovative or a work like Proust's remembrance of things past is just an incredible artistic achievement but for novels that do what most |
1:36.2 | people want novels to do which is to tell a great story and a karenina is on |
1:41.9 | everyone's short list it has has been for 150 years and I suspect it will be for another 150. It's a wonderful book. |
1:50.0 | I don't often say that you need to read certain books. You all know me by now. You know that I'm much more typically say that life is short. |
2:00.0 | There are a lot of great books out there, read what you want, read whatever you're reading, just read it in a good way where you challenge yourself to be a better person as you're reading and after you're reading. |
2:11.0 | Let that book become a part of you. Find books that will let you grow as |
2:16.2 | you read and think and stretch and feel. But Anna Karenina, I'll go ahead and say that this is probably one that should be on your list if you haven't |
2:26.2 | read it yet if you're going to be reading novels at all this is one you should |
2:31.0 | include for consideration. |
2:33.0 | Okay, so what do we have today? |
2:35.0 | We'll have some emails and we'll have our conversation with Mike, |
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