Entre a história e a literatura: uma análise dos aspectos histórico-sociais da obra Anna Kariênina e seu diálogo com a atualidade

Abstract

This work aims to propose a dialog between Literature and History analyzing the historical-social aspects present in the literary work Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and answer to the question: which might be its relations with the present time. The methodology used was the bibliographic research. In order to analyze the novel‟s aspects, to comprehend its relation to History and also to infer relations to the present context, it was used the historical data presented by Bushkovitch (2014), the concept of “Literature of Accusation.” by Carpeaux (2011), and the relation between Literature and History developed by Hauser (1973). In order to comprehend the writer‟s context of production and his main ideas, a research was done in the studies of Zweig; data concerning Tolstoy‟s philosophy were found in Schnaiderman (1983) while the used literary resources were in Steiner (2006). This work has also analyzed and compared Anna Karenina to other Tolstoy‟s work of literature such as: War and Peace (2011), The Death of Ivan Ilyich (2012) and Cossacks (2012). Finally, the attempt is to demonstrate how the novel Anna Karenina is related to the present time; which ones are contemporary ideas and matters and which adaptations or versions throughout the concepts of Candido (2006), Barthes (2006) and Bloom that write regarding the connection established between society, writer, and the work of literature.