Well, what a strange little book this turned out to be from the master. Is it a good read? Yes, it is. Structured around a series of short chapters and incidents, it's just right for the shot-away modern attention span (surely, the novella is the perfect form for our age?) You know what's coming, al...
You know how, when you are fond of someone, you always find a way to defend their reasoning, however weird or distorted it might appear. Well, I have this same issue with Tolstoy.He lived in a society in which sex, marriage and children were interlinked, and love was just a bonus. Nowadays, we like ...
No-recomendado por LauPropósitos de este desafío:Leer de principio a fin libros considerados "malos". Mi intención es encontrar al menos UNA cualidad buena en ellos y reseñarlos objetivamente siguiendo 20 puntos a desarrollar brevemente. (Los puntos varían según el género del que se trate.)Si tienen...
The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Tolstoy. The book is about a jealous husband who overwhelmed by passions kills his wife. The book is told from the perspective of that husband who also describes to a stranger on a railway carriage his theory of where the sexual passions should place in a happy ...
3.5 stars.Read this Tolstoy novella because it featured in the storyline of [b:Second Person Singular|13238290|Second Person Singular|Sayed Kashua|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1344678386s/13238290.jpg|18436416] by Sayed Kashua. Rather than the linked edition, I read a free copy online:...
Morally, I feel like I should have given this less than three stars. I can't, in any way, get behind this story or these characters at all. Not even under the guise of good writing. But three stars feels like an apt rating because it's a bit of a non-committal rating. And I definitely do not know ho...
The story is set on a train in Russia where the passengers are debating about the future of marriage. One passenger who had been silent speaks up. He is Pozdnyshev, who is infamous for killing his wife who he suspected of infidelity. The rest of this short novel is told by Pozdnyshev who recounts...
Man, this is a vicious little thing. It grabbed me and shook me like a dog catching a squirrel. My homegirl Heather suggested that it'd make a good companion read to Dom Casmurro, which was a brilliant idea. It's an awesome double feature. Be ready to put the Kreutzer Sonata on as soon as they s...
I drew my conclusions about this novella prior to reading Tolstoy's Afterword. In the Afterword, he reveals his intended messages for the book---and also reveals himself to be a serious headcase! I waited until I'd finished the book before reading Doris Lessing's introduction about Tolstoy's life. ...
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