What are you going to say: They woke up, breakfasted, didn’t quarrel, went to work, dined pleasantly, and didn’t quarrel again? With happy lives and happy families, there is no drama to relate. The old curse-“May you live in interesting times!”-suggests that the more narratable a life is, the worse it is. In War and Peace and in a variant of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy quotes a French proverb: “Happy people have no history.” Where there are dramatic events, where there is material for an interesting story, there is unhappiness. Often quoted but rarely understood, the first sentence of Anna Karenina-“All happy families resemble each other each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”-offers a paradoxical insight into what is truly important in human lives. The First Sentence: the Interpretative Key to Anna Karenina’s Analysis
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