How does Lubbock (1921, Ch. XVI) read the two strands of Anna Karenina (Anna's and Levin's), and does he say they are joined, and how?
[1921 criticism] Lubbock reads Anna Karenina as a book whose plan is almost wholly scenic but whose nature is 'a pictorial contrast': Anna and her affair on one side, Levin and his on the other. He says the contrast is 'gradually extended and deepened' but 'leads to no clash between the two, no opposition, no drama', and that Levin's domesticity is the contrasted picture that 'completes' Anna's story. So in his account the strands are joined as one design by contrast, not by collision. He does not, in these chapters, name any event or character where the strands meet, and he does not apply his War and Peace tests (C3-B275-S86) to them. Levin is discussed only in this chapter.
[1921 criticism] Lubbock reads Anna Karenina as a book whose plan is almost wholly scenic but whose nature is 'a pictorial contrast': Anna and her affair on one side, Levin and his on the other. He says the contrast is 'gradually extended and deepened' but 'leads to no clash between the two, no opposition, no drama', and that Levin's domesticity is the contrasted picture that 'completes' Anna's story. So in his account the strands are joined as one design by contrast, not by collision. He does not, in these chapters, name any event or character where the strands meet, and he does not apply his War and Peace tests (C3-B275-S86) to them. Levin is discussed only in this chapter.
Curator qualifications: Anna and Levin strands joined as contrast, 'no clash'; Lubbock names no meeting event. This says nothing about Tolstoy's own links.
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