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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy
1873-77 (serialized); 1878 (book) · Russian
Realist novel · Nineteenth-century Russian realist novel

Tolstoy's 1878 novel — "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"

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Attribute Anna Karenina (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Anna Karenina

The seasonal and social time of nineteenth-century Russia.

Space

Anna Karenina

Moscow, St Petersburg, country estate.

Matter

Anna Karenina

The embodied loving and suffering self.

Observer

Anna Karenina

Multiple narrative consciousnesses.

Energy

Anna Karenina

Energies of passion, doubt, and faith.

Information

Anna Karenina

The texture of social and moral life.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina: a touchstone of realist fiction and a moral-religious meditation on love, family, faith, and Russian society.