The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesPenguin UK, 1985. szept. 26. - 352 oldal 'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the self-lacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensation when it first appeared and Tolstoy's wife was appalled that he had drawn on their own experiences together to create a scathing indictment of marriage. 'The Devil', centring on a young man torn between his passion for a peasant girl and his respectable life with his loving wife, also illustrates the impossibility of pure love. 'The Forged Coupon' shows how an act of corruption can spiral out of control, and 'After the Ball' examines the abuse of power. Written during a time of spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, these late stories reflect a world of moral uncertainties. |
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... whole thing.' Thus it would appear that the first draft dates from 1887. It was apparently written as a dramatic monologue for the actor V. N. Andreyev-Burlak, * who came to visit Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana on 20 June 1887. According to ...
... whole thing.' Thus it would appear that the first draft dates from 1887. It was apparently written as a dramatic monologue for the actor V. N. Andreyev-Burlak, * who came to visit Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana on 20 June 1887. According to ...
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... great pains to prepare sumptuous feasts for themselves, they inevitably end up in unlawfulness and debauchery. This was only the first of a whole series of letters to Chertkov, whose request for 'a reply to my question about.
... great pains to prepare sumptuous feasts for themselves, they inevitably end up in unlawfulness and debauchery. This was only the first of a whole series of letters to Chertkov, whose request for 'a reply to my question about.
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... whole drama of the tale, which has never once gone out of my mind during all this time, is now clear in my mind. He has cultivated her sensuality. The doctors have forbidden her to have any more children. She is fed to satiety, dressed ...
... whole drama of the tale, which has never once gone out of my mind during all this time, is now clear in my mind. He has cultivated her sensuality. The doctors have forbidden her to have any more children. She is fed to satiety, dressed ...
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... whole of Tolstoy's thinking and teaching, became the signal for a campaign of reprisals taken against him by the Church. It set the seal on a deep antagonism between Tolstoy and the Church–State complex of Imperial Russia that was to ...
... whole of Tolstoy's thinking and teaching, became the signal for a campaign of reprisals taken against him by the Church. It set the seal on a deep antagonism between Tolstoy and the Church–State complex of Imperial Russia that was to ...
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... whole episode of her petition to Aleksander must be seen as a desperate attempt on her part to project the work as a piece of literature, to deny its confessional nature and to protect her own reputation and that of her family. Despite ...
... whole episode of her petition to Aleksander must be seen as a desperate attempt on her part to project the work as a piece of literature, to deny its confessional nature and to protect her own reputation and that of her family. Despite ...
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The Devil | |
The Forged Coupon | |
After the Ball | |
Postface to The Kreutzer Sonata | |
Further Reading | |
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