Part 4, Chapter 3
Vronsky's and Anna's parallel dreams of the peasant beating iron, muttering "Il faut le battre, le fer, le broyer, le petrir."
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From Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Both Anna and Vronsky share a recurring nightmare of a small, disheveled peasant muttering in French while working over iron, a symbolic motif of foreboding doom.
Part 7, Chapter 31
The peasant reappears in Anna's vision just before she throws herself under the train.
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