The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) image
ISBN-10:

0140444696

ISBN-13:

9780140444698

Author(s): TOLSTOY, LEO
Released: Jan 07, 1986
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
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Description:

While "The Kreutzer Sonata" caused a public sensation, Tolstoy's wife, Sonya, was hurt and furious that he should have enriched his scathing indictment of marriage with private details from theri own life together. Tolstoy, during two years of obsessive unhappiness, had become convinced that the idea of a "Christian marriage" was an impossibility. Here he lets loose all his frustration and disgust at human sexuality, and the humiliating, ungodly, sensual tie that binds men to women. The curious result, part self-lacerating, confession, part Christian polemic, is moving, above all, as the story of a man whose sexual jealousy, inflamed by guilt, drives him to murder his wife.


























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