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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Levin was the least likeable character in the novel. Totally full of himself, pious, judgmental, blind to the plight of his serfs and his wife, impractical, a latent socialist living off the fat of the land, lacking in self-awareness. He's probably the reason I much prefer several other Tolstoy novels. Oblonsky would be a lot more fun to go have a vodka with or shoot some birds with, I know that much.
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If you are talking Russian literature I would take The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov over any of Tolstoy's stuff but that is probably just me.