Ana Karenina

Escrito por León Tolstói

Narrado por Elenco Fonolibro

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar la obra cumbre de León Tolstoi, “Ana Karenina,” la cual es considerada como una de las historias de amor más maravillosas de la literatura universal.

La novela se desarrolla en la Rusia de los Zares, donde Ana Karenina, una hermosa mujer casada con un poderoso ministro del gobierno ruso, se enamora de un apuesto y rico oficial del ejército, el Conde Vronsky. Buscando la felicidad y desafiando las reglas y normas de la sociedad rusa, Ana Karenina, abandona su esposo e hijo para vivir con su amante, con devastadores resultados.

Viva con este maravilloso audiolibro esta gran historia de amor, la cual levanta controversias y conflictos en la sociedad, familia y amigos, y que termina en un inesperado final.

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• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Fonolibro Audiobooks
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 abr 2013
• ISBN: 9781611540864

León Tolstói

<p><b>Lev Nikoláievich Tolstoi</b> nació en 1828, en Yásnaia Poliana, en la región de Tula, de una familia aristócrata. En 1844 empezó Derecho y Lenguas Orientales en la universidad de Kazán, pero dejó los estudios y llevó una vida algo disipada en Moscú y San Petersburgo.</p><p> En 1851 se enroló con su hermano mayor en un regimiento de artillería en el Cáucaso. En 1852 publicó <i>Infancia</i>, el primero de los textos autobiográficos que, seguido de <i>Adolescencia</i> (1854) y <i>Juventud</i> (1857), le hicieron famoso, así como sus recuerdos de la guerra de Crimea, de corte realista y antibelicista, <i>Relatos de Sevastópol</i> (1855-1856). La fama, sin embargo, le disgustó y, después de un viaje por Europa en 1857, decidió instalarse en Yásnaia Poliana, donde fundó una escuela para hijos de campesinos. El éxito de su monumental novela <i>Guerra y paz</i> (1865-1869) y de <i>Anna Karénina</i> (1873-1878; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR, núm. XLVII, y ALBA MINUS, núm. 31), dos hitos de la literatura universal, no alivió una profunda crisis espiritual, de la que dio cuenta en <i>Mi confesión</i> (1878-1882), donde prácticamente abjuró del arte literario y propugnó un modo de vida basado en el Evangelio, la castidad, el trabajo manual y la renuncia a la violencia. A partir de entonces el grueso de su obra lo compondrían fábulas y cuentos de orientación popular, tratados morales y ensayos como <i>Qué es el arte</i> (1898) y algunas obras de teatro como <i>El poder de las tinieblas</i> (1886) y <i>El cadáver viviente</i> (1900); su única novela de esa época fue <i>Resurrección</i> (1899), escrita para recaudar fondos para la secta pacifista de los dujobori (guerreros del alma).</p><p> Una extensa colección de sus <i>Relatos</i> ha sido publicada en esta misma colección (ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR, núm. XXXIII). En 1901 fue excomulgado por la Iglesia Ortodoxa. Murió en 1910, rumbo a un monasterio, en la estación de tren de Astápovo.</p>

Comentarios para Ana Karenina

[ana · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Gran narración, buenas voces usadas y buenos sonidos para ambientar

[jessicadelellis · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I really enjoyed this book. It was boring only a couple of times, but the short chapters made it easy to read.

[persephoneslibrary · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Tolstoi tells us the story of three different couples in 19th-century Russia: Stepan Oblonski and his wife Darja, Darja’s sister Kitty and Lewin and finally Anna Karenina, Stepan’s sister, and Alexej Wronski.At the beginning of the novel Anna and Lewin are both on their way to Moskau.Anna wants to help her brother Stepan Oblonski to fix his marriage. He betrayed his wife Darja with the nanny and Anna wants to reconcile the couple – with a short-turn success: Darja decides to stay with her husband but neither she nor Stepan will be totally happy again.Lewin travels to Moskau because he wants to ask Kitty to marry him. But Kitty already fell in love with Alexej Wronski who is courting her, so she turns down Lewin’s offer. She soon regrets it, because on a ball Alexej Wronski falls in love with Anna Karenina who’s married to Alexej Karenin.What now evolves is a fantastically written novel about relationships and loneliness, about marriage, love and adultery.Tolstoi’s great talent is the power of observation: He uncovers the inner life of his protagonists to the very core and presents the two-faced morals of society. Moreover Tolstoi shows how everybody is the architect of his own fortune, e.g.: Although Anna and Wronski love each other, they make their lifes a living hell, because they are too jealous and insecure – and they think too much about it. Or when Lewin is married to Kitty, he’s actually looking for things that are not to his taste. He can’t just enjoy his luck, but he has to relativize it.I really liked how everybody gets his/her chapters in which his/her motives are explained. It gave me a balanced picture of the characters – how they see themselves and how they are seen from the others.It’s a great piece of literature : Recommendation!

[Perla Coronado · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

La reseña de este audiolibro es muy corta se pierden muchos detalles de la obra original.

[zoes_human · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Just because you can take 800 pages to say something about the human condition doesn't mean you should.I'd rather be reading Chekhov.

[collingsruth · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

What a struggle, these Russians. A fascinating read if you can get a copy with lots of footnotes, the window it gives into the society of that era is its most redeeming feature. Anna herself is a frustrating protagonist of an almost soap opera mentality, drama after drama. The ending is almost a relief.

[msaucier818 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Tolstoy's War and Peace is one of my favorite books. Many of the reviews I have read rates Anna Karenina as a superior book. I could not disagree more. I very much appreciate Tolstoy's ability to create unique characters and to invite the reader into the minds and emotions of them. I found that I enjoyed the ups and downs of the multiple stories within the novel. However, I found that this novel did not truly have a plot. Through over 1100 pages, I never once remember thinking, "I can't wait to see what happens next!" The novel just plods along as a study of relationships. Another problem I had was that I had a hard time liking the main character of Anna Karenina. I didn't appreciate her actions, and struggled with the end of her story. Perhaps that was more of my life issues than her's, but either way, it soured the story for me.

[chris tamm · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Anna Karenina una mujer apasionada, feminista en la época inadecuada.

[katemcangus · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I first read this book when I was 11. A dramatic child? Me? It remains a favorite, and ensures that I'll forever be a champion of Tolstoy.

[toby.neal · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Tolstoy’s greatest novel, what some deem the greatest novel ever written, seems to ‘proceed as plotlessly and accidentally as life itself’ (E. B. Greenwood, Introduction to Anna Karenina, p. xii). Tolstoy contrasts two people of different character and temperament both of whom we squirm, flinch and weep in response to their actions. Anna lives for her own needs, passions and freedom. Levin lives for the good of others and his soul. In this way Anna and her affair with Vronsky depicts so outstandingly what modern philosophers call expressive individualism, where being true to our authentic self by expressing our deepest desires and acting on them is heroic. The Tolstoy critic Andrew Kaufman says in an interview that the 1860s were a time of great transition in Russia whereby the more traditional value system was being replaced by a new value systems. Tolstoy watched his friends and family members were getting divorced at alarming numbers. And this concerned him because in his view, the family is one of the key social units. And when families fall apart, he believed societies begin to fall apart. This is a central theme in Anna Karenina. Tolstoy heard people saying, "maybe marriage isn't the be all and end all of life. Maybe even if you do get married, not having kids might lead to a greater happiness." And, and of course, this is something that's very much echoed in today's world. In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy shows that the problem with these arguments is that they come from a false set of assumptions: This idea that more freedom means more fulfillment, that the gratification of one's personal desires, leads to more happiness. Tolstoy came to the opposite conclusion; that in many cases, less freedom can lead to a more abiding happiness because it forces us to make choices to make hard choices, and to commit to those choices with the fullness of our being. And family life is the ultimate embodiment of making those kinds of choices, of limiting our freedom for the sake of love. And so it is the characters who embrace the duties, the pain, the vulnerability of family life—of fatherhood, motherhood, being a son, being a daughter—those are often the characters who in the end, end up achieving the deepest kind of fulfillment.Kaufman gives an example from Tolstoy's own life. While writing War and Peace, he used a very interesting metaphor to describe what he was like before he got married, and what he's like now. It was the metaphor of an apple tree that he described himself as. An apple tree, that once sprouted in all different directions. But 'now, that it’s trimmed, tied, and supported, its trunk and roots can grow without hindrance.' It's a very powerful image. At the heart of it is this idea that sometimes limits are what allow us to grow more fully. And limits are actually what allow us to realise our fullest human potential.So according to Tolstoy a life like Anna's, which looks so romantic and promising, usually ends in tragedy. The reversal of fortunes is shown when Anna and Kitty are contrasted by Dolly (Kitty's sister): “‘How happily it turned out for Kitty that Anna came,’ said Dolly, ‘and how unhappily for her! The exact reverse,’ she added, struck by her thought. ‘Then Anna was so happy and Kitty considered herself miserable. Now it’s the exact reverse.’” (p. 551)Anna becomes a slave to her love/lust for Vronsky and finds herself trapped without access to her son, with excessively jealous of Vronksy, and unable to live without his enmeshed love.Tolstoy contrasts Anna's persist of freedom to desire what she wants to Levin's. Upon his engagement to Kitty, Levin's brother and friends question him about the loss of freedom he will experience when he is married. Levin replies, “‘What is the good of freedom? Happiness consists only in loving and desiring: in wishing her wishes and in thinking her thoughts, which means having no freedom whatever; that is happiness!’” (p. 442). Levin’s desire is not possessive self serving eros (like Anna’s), but generous other-centred agape. The result is that while Levin’s life is not easy, although there is doubt and jealousy and fear and conflict, there nevertheless is true freedom, fulfilment and happiness. He is not enslaved but a servant of love and goodness. I found the book long and tedious at points but I suppose that is because Tolstoy so wants us to “love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations”. He packs in so much of life into the 806 pages, not just in the grand moments but also in the ordinary ones. The result is that you end up on a journey through 19th century Russia, a place and time I have now lived vicariously through. But Tolstoy also takes you on a journey to the very heart of human experience. The plot changes don’t come quickly. Instead Tolstoy spends significant time taking you into the mind and heart of all these different kinds of characters: nobels and peasants, philosophers and farmers, men and women, the promiscuous and duty-bound. Tolstoy draws you in to empathise with all these as you realise you share their same hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, temptations and regrets. The conversions of Karenin, Anna and Levin all demand attention. I am not sure Tolstoy ever really grasps the nature of the gospel of grace. He comes close at points but never really gets there. The closest we get is Karenin’s forgiveness of Anna, Anna’s cry for forgiveness at her death, and Levin’s humble recognition of the gift and goodness of life.I think this novel is like the book of Ecclesiastes: it teaches us about life under the sun and concludes that the meaning of life is “to live for God, to the soul” (p. 785). or as Solomon says, "A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?" (Eccl 2:24–25)Yes this is the meaning of life, but what does that look like? And how is atonement possible when we fail. Tolstoy raises this question superbly, hints at an answer, but in many ways it's still a mystery. For a clear answer we must turn to the Gospels or perhaps to the novels of Dostoevsky who perhaps understood better the gospel of grace.

[tjwilson_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I did not expect to like this book. I was expecting a long and drawn-out epic romance, but instead I found treatise upon treatise and plot turns that were both surprising and delightful. The most important aspect of this book is the evolution of its characters. So believable. So symbolic and indicative of Tolstoy's philosophies. Beautiful language spinning out the multitudes of scenic backdrops and the personality drive aspects, both outloud and interior, of all the characters. Anna Karenina is a wonderfully poetic and curiously didactic tale of realism written down through the energies of creation and molded by astute observances of life. More Tolstoy please.

[Erika Hernandez · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

No me gustaron las voces de los personajes. Y es muy resumida esta versión

[Ana María Burga · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Me gustó la historia y la narración. Gracias por permitirnos disfrutar de esta obra.

[therebelprince · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I would consider War and Peace the greater novel, but gosh, isn't this a fantastic piece of work? What author so successfully places us inside the head of each of its characters, moving them forward with an unrelenting pace while also tying them so closely to the fortunes of their nation? Wondrous.

[anacarter-127109 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Anna Karenina is one of the two main characters in the novel she is an aristocrat from St. Petersburg, Russia. This story takes place in the 1800s, where adultery and divorce was illegal. She captures the attention of everyone in society by the way she carries herself. She commits adultery; she cannot live without her lover. She is well mannered and outspoken. She is a young married woman, who has one young son. Unfortunately she sees a very handsome young man, named Vronsky, and she instantly becomes attracted to him, when their eyes meet. Vronsky is wealthy, he is a military officer. He is passionate, and caring for Anna. He becomes charmed by her beauty upon meeting her. She has an affair with him and commits adultery. She cannot live without her lover, even though her husband tells her to leave him. She is now pregnant with her lovers child, and her husband loves her so much that he is willing to raise the child as his own, as long as she leaves her lover, Vronsky. Her husband Karenin is a high-ranking Government Minister, who forgives her of committing adultery.


Anna is the beautiful, passionate, and educated wife of Alexei Karenin, a cold and passionless government official. Her character is rich in complexity: she is guilty of desecrating her marriage and home, for instance, but she remains noble and admirable nonetheless. Anna is intelligent and literate, a reader of English novels and a writer of children's books. She is elegant, always understated in her dress. Her many years with Karenin show her capable of playing the role of cultivated, beautiful, society wife and hostess with great poise and grace. She is very nearly the ideal aristocratic Russian wife of the 1870s.


Her affair throws her into social exile, misery and eventually makes her commit suicide, because her love moves on with someone else.


The other main character is Levin. He is independent-minded and socially awkward. He is truly an individual character who fits into none of the obvious classifications of Russian society. Levin is his own person. He follows his own vision of things, even when it is confused and foggy, rather than adopting any group's prefabricated views. Moreover, Levin prefers isolation over fitting in with a social set with which he is not wholly comfortable. In this he resembles Anna, whose story is a counterpart to his own in its search for self-definition and individual happiness.


He falls in love with Kitty, Anna's friend, despite that they are from different social classes. Kitty being a Princess, and Levin being a Peasant. The two, struggle to find each other and happiness as they create a life together. . She gives up being a princess because she loves him, and she moves to his farm and becomes a peasant.




[THEMES]
Adultery

Social issue
Society will react negatively to this adultery
Karenin > willing to overlook Anna's affair as long as she doesn't want to get a divorce
Anna tries to escape society in Italy and on the country side
Social criticism/marital betrayal


Forgiveness

Forgiveness are sometimes compromised >Dolly forgiving Stiva for cheating
When Anna begs Karenin [has little effect> Anna continues loving Vronsky]
Ongoing process that may grow or diminish
Anna begs for forgiveness before committing suicide
Overall, I really enjoyed both the novel and the film. I usually don't read novels in this genre, but I really liked this one. If you get a chance, you should definitely check this book out! I highly recommend it!

Happy Reading!

-Ana @SoManyBooksSoLittleTime

This review will is also posted on my blog

[steve02476 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

What a beautiful book, I’ve a had a wonderful time reading it. (Actually, listening to it.) I guess I need to read more Tolstoy! What a great understanding of personality, psychology, etc. Also a lot of humor mixed in with sadness, struggle, etc.

Enjoyed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reading - a little flat, subtle, not terribly dramatic, not very distinct voices or anything — but I think that let the writing and story really show through.

[alisony-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

So I finally got to the end of Anna Karenina. My reading speed is no reflection on the book - work's super busy and of course Christmas silly season is upon us when many an evening is spent glued to my laptop looking for gifts. And I'm back to the gym after Covid, so that burns up a few evenings a week as well. All in all, I've not had much available reading time each day.As so many people have already read this classic I'll stick to my thoughts rather than a review of the plot. Whilst it's a fairly lengthy tome, for the most part I was fully engrossed in it (and the pages where a glazed a little were less than double figures). So what was the draw? Characterisation is the big one that stood out, particularly the character contrasts between the two main couples in the novel. Tolstoy does a good job of humanising his characters, revealing their many layers as the novel develops. On many pages I was finding Anna entirely self-satisfying and not overly likeable, yet as the book progresses we see her frailties and no doubt genuine love - to the point of obsession - of Vronsky. As a reader we're torn between thoughts of 'well, you made your bed so you'd better lie in it' and sympathy for someone who in a loveless marriage who simply is dazzled by love. Vronsky similarly feels like a selfish playboy at the beginning of the novel, but his genuine love for Anna by the end is clear.Levin's relationship with Kitty is an interesting parallel, a chalk and cheese pair compared to the fiery romance between Anna and Vronsky. Still waters run deep with Levin, whose thoughts are consumed with self-questioning and desire to work towards the greater good. A totally different man to Vronsky, but who of the two is the most noble in the end?The second big draw for me in this novel was the setting of Imperial Russia. I knew little of the lifestyle of the nobility in this period in Russian history, and this backdrop was fascinating, from 'society' in Moscow and St. Petersburg to Levin's country dwelling and interaction with the muzhiks post the abolition of serfdom. Tolstoy's descriptions were incredibly vivid, from the dust on the face of travellers who had come the last leg of their journey by carriage to the epic train journeys regularly taken as the society characters moved between their own houses and those of family and acquaintances they went to stay with.If I have one criticism it's that the last 50 pages felt a little flat in comparison with the rest of the novel. Tolstoy tries to bring the novel to a moral finale, but somehow it felt a bit contrived and rushed along to the conclusion he wanted to get to. But it's a small criticism in a work that was a rich tapestry and hugely enjoyable.4.5 stars - a wonderful epic that deserves rereading.

[jwhenderson_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Tolstoy encompasses the whole world within his novels. This novel exemplifies his approach that at once brings into focus the humanity of his characters, the details of the world in which they live, and the philosophies by which they guide their lives. Spinning his tale of Anna and her passions out from a small moment in the life of one unhappy family Tolstoy shows again and again how our lives are intertwined with each other. His uncanny ability to demonstrate psychological insight into the characters is amazing from the moment they are introduced through the denouement and epilogue of this massive tale.

[seriousgrace · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Who doesn't know the tragic story of Anna Karenina? When the story was complete I found myself asking does Anna our deserve pity? Many see her love for another man other than her husband as a tragedy. Indeed, Anna's husband only cares about how society will view him in regards to her infidelity. Karenin is weak, cold and completely unlikable. However, there was another far more appealing couple. I found Konstantine Levin's relationship with Kitty far more enthralling and far more tragic. As an aside, when I first picked up Anna Karenina I wondered to myself what made this story nearly one thousand pages long. The more I got into it, the more it became clear Tolstoy could spend entire chapters on the threshing of fields, the racing of horses, croquet competitions, and philosophical tirades about Russian society. Condensed down, Anna Karenina is simply about unhappy relationships; specifically an unhappily married woman who has to chose between her duty as a mother and her emotional attachment to a lover. We all know how that turns out.

[ponsonby_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

When you have read this book, you realise how inadequate are the various TV and film adaptations (I have seen 9 different ones, and even the best go nowhere deep enough into the characters' minds and emotions)

[marse_4 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I've read this novel at least twice before (parts of it in Russian) and I'm always amazed at how well Tolstoy is able to capture Anna's disintegrating and confused mind at the end. Not just Anna's, but Levin's torturous thoughts in regards to Kitty, and his purpose in life. I've been won over by Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation. Not sure I like their Dostoevsky translations so well, but they do a wonderful job with Tolstoy.

[infjsarah · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Anna Karenina is a classic I have wanted to read for a long time. Needing a break from a long fantasy series on audio, I decided to finally go for it on audio. I really enjoyed it - it wasn't what I expected at all. I wanted to know what happened next and even the ruminations by Levin on farming and society didn't bore me. The only time I was like "oh get on with it" was towards the end where certain bits seemed unnecessary. It was very well read by David Horovitch.

[akbouterse · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I enjoyed this book. There were times where it seemed to just drag on and sometimes I was bored out of my mind but overall I found the experience of reading this book to be an interesting one. I liked the look it gave at Russian society and I liked the story about the lives of various families living in that society. This book was very different from what I usually read but still very enjoyable. I'm happy I read this even though it was very long.

[comfypants · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

A married woman falls in love with a jerk.2/4 (Indifferent)I gave up after 150 pages. It's nice of the edition I read to spoil the ending on the back, so I know it's not going to go anywhere good. I didn't exactly dislike what I read of the book, but I really do not need to read 700 more pages of it.(Oct. 2021)

[caanderson-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A look into Russian society among the rich and poor. The complicated social norms are exhausting and not too different from American societies.

[completely_melanie · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

Not a fan. Everyone is cheating on everyone.

[davidroche_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Summer Classic project. I loved War and Peace but am clearly not worthy of loving Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy. I mean, what is wrong with these people? Spoiler alert: at least I lasted until the end. Great characterisation but the endless angst, philosophical self-flagellation and agrarian detail nearly got the better of me. I have greater sympathy with The Russian Revolution than I did before reading it.

[connorshirs · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

The people I am acquainted with continuously joke about how I force Anna Karenina into every conversation with an appeasable demeanor—only because I have an undying passion for everything that defines this book.

Tolstoy portrays Levin; who I believe to be despicable—regardless of the correlations between Levin and the author—who is the debated protagonist of the story. I despised whenever Levin appeared within the narrative, I just wanted the focus to be on Anna.

Despite the dull ending and unnecessary Levin narrative, this holds to be my favorite book; usurping Dickens’ Great Expectations and Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Anna is a highly relatable character and her devastation is what makes this book iconic to a modern reader.

[aladyinredpolish · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Extraordinarily written! The type of book to awaken all senses and feel deeply. It's like meeting a friend, traveling on vacation, and then throughout the entire process being absolutely mesmerized by the way the Author writes. The best book I have read.

[kittycunningh-815148 · Calificación: 1 de 5 estrellas]

There were some really good parts, but they don't make up for aaaaaaaaaaaallllllllll the tedious parts.

I listened to the audio book and had 2 hours leading up to her suicide when I turned it off. I just didn't care enough about her to listen to it. Frankly, I wished she'd done it sooner and more quickly.