The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesPenguin, 1985 - 287 oldal 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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7. oldal
... murders his wife was one that preyed on Tolstoy's mind at least from the time of his marriage to Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862. The development of the ideological and thematic framework of The Kreutzer Sonata was long and tortuous ...
... murders his wife was one that preyed on Tolstoy's mind at least from the time of his marriage to Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862. The development of the ideological and thematic framework of The Kreutzer Sonata was long and tortuous ...
8. oldal
... murder itself , take place at a country dacha , not in the Pozdnyshev house- hold . Pozdnyshev is said to be a chemist - not a musician - by training : throughout the narrative he is referred to as a scientist , a chemist , and even a ...
... murder itself , take place at a country dacha , not in the Pozdnyshev house- hold . Pozdnyshev is said to be a chemist - not a musician - by training : throughout the narrative he is referred to as a scientist , a chemist , and even a ...
13. oldal
... murders his wife ; this time , however , the plot would be fused with the inspiration provided by the music . Tolstoy proposed to Repin that he should paint a canvas on the same theme , likewise entitled The Kreutzer Sonata . The ...
... murders his wife ; this time , however , the plot would be fused with the inspiration provided by the music . Tolstoy proposed to Repin that he should paint a canvas on the same theme , likewise entitled The Kreutzer Sonata . The ...
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... murdered her when he conceived this hatred for her , that he sought out a pretext for murdering her and was glad of it . Yes , yesterday the muzhiks confirmed that the klikushi [ hysterical peasant women ] are always married women ...
... murdered her when he conceived this hatred for her , that he sought out a pretext for murdering her and was glad of it . Yes , yesterday the muzhiks confirmed that the klikushi [ hysterical peasant women ] are always married women ...
21. oldal
... murder of his wife , we may see an act of rebellion against life's meaninglessness in the face of domination by the reproductive urge , institutionalized in marriage . Much has been made of Tolstoy's supposed ' mis- ogyny ' , of his ...
... murder of his wife , we may see an act of rebellion against life's meaninglessness in the face of domination by the reproductive urge , institutionalized in marriage . Much has been made of Tolstoy's supposed ' mis- ogyny ' , of his ...
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The Kreutzer Sonata | 25 |
The Devil | 119 |
The Forged Coupon | 175 |
After the Ball | 255 |
Postface to the Kreutzer Sonata | 267 |
Alternative Conclusion to The Devil | 283 |
Notes | 286 |
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9. oldal - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.