Convinced his wife is betraying him with a young musician, his overpowering suspicion drives him to ever more dangerous lengths.United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and he becomes increasingly jealous. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoys Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata.Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoys 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.In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant The Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature.
The Kreutzer Sonata Leo Tolstoy - 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.
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