Modern Library Classics: The Kreutzer Sonata (Paperback)

from sarah_rubyred

I may not have completely understood The Kreutzer Sonata, but it made me kind of angry and bored at the same time. For one the protaganist had so much anger for his wife it was very hard for me to identify with him. I also felt the blame he placed on society for his mistakes was, though possibly ...

from ctpress

Two men sitting on a train alone during the night - the main character, Pozdnyshev, lay bare his soul and tells about the reason why he killed his wife - and the event that lead up to it - and why he got away with it. The narrator is the one who hear this brutally honest story. The main themes of...

from fuzzy_patters

The narrator of this story tells us about a conversation he has with a man on a train who introduces himself as the infamous man who has been in all of the papers for murdering his wife. He proceeds to explain to the narrator why he committed the murder and how the very nature of love and sexual ...

from proustitute

Praised by many as Tolstoy's best short story-or novella, really-I'm shocked that I've never read this until now, if only for the reason that Tolstoy's best inevitably means one of the best novellas ever written. And The Kreutzer Sonata is definitely that; it's also one of the beginning texts of ...

from fuzzy_patters

The narrator of this story tells us about a conversation he has with a man on a train who introduces himself as the infamous man who has been in all of the papers for murdering his wife. He proceeds to explain to the narrator why he committed the murder and how the very nature of love and sexual ...