The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
graf Leo Tolstoy
Subjects: Short stories, Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Translations into English, Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, PG, I
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Subjects: Short stories, Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Translations into English, Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, PG, I
Downloads: 509
The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage. The main character, Pozdnyshev, relates the events leading up to his killing his wife; in his analysis, the root cause for the deed were the "animal excesses" and "swinish connection" governing the relation between the sexes. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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