![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, it turns out to be less a story than a jeremiad against sexual desire (and pretty much all other forms of pleasure) exposing Tolstoy's uncontrollable gibbering terror of vajayjays. So, my first thought, when I saw that my next books1001 reading selection was from Leo Tolstoy, was "Oh, crap." Not that I have anything against long novels, and I really am planning to tackle War and Peace one of these days, but I wasn't quite in the mood for a big huge Russian epic just now.įortunately, The Kreutzer Sonata turns out to be a novella of a mere 33,000 words. But it seems more in keeping with the spirit of his story than Russian kitsch. I totally chose the cover image above because Tolstoy would have hated it. Controversial upon 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. When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Inverarity One-line summary: A 50-page abstinence rant in the form of a story about a jealous man who kills his wife. ![]()
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