Reading Anna Karenina

Writes Professor Robert Gerst:

The first time I read Anna Karenina it was snowing. It was Buffalo. It snowed for forty straight days and I read Anna Karenina for forty straight days. There are are islands in time when the sea around you turns preternaturally visible. Reading this novel that way was such an island for me.

March 31st, Friday, 2-4 PM, Professor Leon Steinmetz will be introducing Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to our Liberal Arts Department Anna Karenina discussion group. Leon suggests that we read the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, available in paperback from Penguin.

We’re meeting Friday afternoons from 2 to 4, in Lin Haire-Sargeant’s office 533-B (or in an adjoining classroom) March 31st, April 7th, April 21th, May 5th, and May 19th. Join us.