The Kreutzer Sonata
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812968231 (0812968239)
Publish date: September 9th 2003
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
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:...
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