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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10. oldal
... woman is not ready to conceive ( i.e. when she has no menstrual periods ) is without rational justification , and is merely a form of carnal pleasure - and a very ignominious and shameful pleasure , as every man of conscience will admit ...
... woman is not ready to conceive ( i.e. when she has no menstrual periods ) is without rational justification , and is merely a form of carnal pleasure - and a very ignominious and shameful pleasure , as every man of conscience will admit ...
11. oldal
... woman is not ready to conceive is excess ) may still not be too great for the man if restraint is observed ( the very use of the word ' restraint ' in such a context is repellent ) , if he only has carnal relations with one woman - yet ...
... woman is not ready to conceive is excess ) may still not be too great for the man if restraint is observed ( the very use of the word ' restraint ' in such a context is repellent ) , if he only has carnal relations with one woman - yet ...
14. oldal
... woman doctor ' which was absorbing his entire atten- tion . This was Tokology - A Book for Every Woman , a recently published gynaecological manual dealing with practical aspects of pregnancy , childbirth and child care , by an American ...
... woman doctor ' which was absorbing his entire atten- tion . This was Tokology - A Book for Every Woman , a recently published gynaecological manual dealing with practical aspects of pregnancy , childbirth and child care , by an American ...
15. oldal
... woman's disillusionment , of the sensuality of men , so alien at first , and of their lack of sympathy with children . She is unjust , because she wants to justify herself , while in order to understand and to tell the truth , one must ...
... woman's disillusionment , of the sensuality of men , so alien at first , and of their lack of sympathy with children . She is unjust , because she wants to justify herself , while in order to understand and to tell the truth , one must ...
17. oldal
... woman in our conditions of society . ' It is significant that this passage was excised by Tolstoy when he came to write the ninth draft , indicating his disapproval of Leskov's ' tolerant ' view of marital infidelity as expressed in the ...
... woman in our conditions of society . ' It is significant that this passage was excised by Tolstoy when he came to write the ninth draft , indicating his disapproval of Leskov's ' tolerant ' view of marital infidelity as expressed in the ...
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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.