The Kreutzer Sonata
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1627300600 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was the sole beneficiary of his stepfather's will and is one of the trustees of O'Brian's estate. Nikolai Tolstoy is a highly recognized and acclaimed historian and biographer.
sashatagger said A huge disappointment. A huge disappointment. I think that in his later years Tolstoy became quite a bit insane. The first part of this novella consists of a long and tedious monologue that preaches the virtues of chastity, of physical labor, against marriage, against women, children, eating well in general and eating meat in particular, and some more. After that the actual story begins, it is written well, but it's about the marriage and jealousy of a man whose notions of women, love, sex and relat
. He was the sole beneficiary of his stepfather's will and is one of the trustees of O'Brian's estate. About the Author Nikolai Tolstoy is a highly recognized and acclaimed historian and biographer
The Kreutzer Sonata is essentially a discussion in which the character Pozdnyshev tells of his disasterous marriage. Controversial upon its publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy's then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society. A cautionary tale, it is a declamation against immorality and sexual indulgence.