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The Kreutzer Sonata — Leo Tolstoy

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The Kreutzer Sonata

Крейцерова соната

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Novella in the form of a confession: in a railway carriage Pozdnyshev tells a stranger how he killed his wife out of jealousy of a violinist with whom she played Beethoven's sonata. His story is a diatribe against marriage, sensuality and the sexual education of his time. Banned by the censor, it circulated in copies and was published in 1891 after Sofia Tolstaya appealed to the tsar. Tolstoy added an afterword in 1890 defending chastity.

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English

  • The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

    Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2009

    Translation: Louise y Aylmer Maude, J. D. Duff

    ISBN 9780199555796

  • The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories — Leo Tolstoy

    The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

    Penguin Classics, 1985

    Translation: David McDuff

    ISBN 9780140444698

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Other works by Leo Tolstoy

Sources

  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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