Tolstoi şi fenomenologia iubirii
Tolstoi and the Phenomenology of Love

Summary/Abstract: Beyond all the ideological readings it has been subjected to, Anna Carenina remains the novel of a complicated dialectics of love, a feeling that is, in fact, the most vulnerable of all when altered by the false social prejudices. In Ana Karenina love is a devalued phenomenon, degraded by the intrusion of a system of causalities that is specific to the high society. It misses exactly the spontaneous, instinctive, passionate, irrational features that normally define its authenticity. It is falsified by routine and works in the subsidiary of some social reasoning determined by the bourgeois interests. This censorship neutralizes the feeling of love, reducing it to a convention, but it is accepted and assumed by all the characters as an unavoidable fatality, as if any rebellion would produce an apocalyptical result. Therefore no one ever steps out of the rules for the sake of true feelings. No one but Anna.

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