Tolstoy's the Double

In Tolstoy's world, it really matters what we think and what we feel. Keats hit upon this idea in a letter: if a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel. If Anna Karenina was an opera, understand as a word would be hit upon over and over again,. She wants love and she wants to be understood, and she doesn't get that. And there's a real sublime artistic rendering in the fact that both of her lovers are husband and her lover, they're both called Alexi. That's something Tolstoy does really well, he can do all these overtly artificial techniques, he does it in