![]() This paper analyzes how Tolstoy used fashion as imagery to communicate his growing concerns about Russian society.This adaptation of Anna Karenina is a very flat adaptation of one of the greatest pieces of literature, but actually it is not only a failure as an adaptation but disappointing also on its own merits. This foregrounding technique, often accompanied by defamiliarization, serves to highlight themes and messages by focusing the reader on what is not said. Instead, Tolstoy carefully juxtaposed extensive physical detail about certain characters with a notable lack about others. It is equally implausible that detailed descriptions of berthas, guipure lace and pink tulle are meant to make the novel more accessible to the lower classes, which he feared might aspire to such things. In his wife Sofia’s diary, she wrote, “Today Lyovushka (Leo) asked me for some fashion magazines regarding Anna’s ball gown.” Highly critical of the Westernized nobility in Russia, it is difficult to imagine that Tolstoy undertook this research just to provide credible detail for the entertainment of the upper class. ![]() ![]() There is evidence that Tolstoy did quite a bit of research to supply detail for his novel, Anna Karenina.
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