Yes, this is Keira Knightley playing Anna Karenina, with Jude Law cast as Alexei. The film arrives this fall with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard (that’s good) and directed by Joe Wright (that’s bad).
From the New York Public Library:
Among Nabokov’s 1950s lecture notes for Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is this diagram of the “ladies’ part” of a “very primitive” sleeping car, in which Anna would have ridden.
Tolstoy’s 10 Rules for Life
- Get up early (five o’clock).
- Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock).
- Eat little and avoid sweets.
- Try to do everything by yourself.
- Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater.
- Keep away from women.
- Kill desire by work.
- Be good, but try to let no one know it.
- Always live less expensively than you might.
- Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer.
Mostly good advice, save for #6. (Via)
