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    The Kreutzer Sonata
    The Kreutzer Sonata
    The Kreutzer Sonata
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    The Kreutzer Sonata

    Written by Leo Tolstoi

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters relating to sexual abstinence and the hypocrisy of marriage. The novella emphasizes Tolstoy's controversial view on sexuality, which asserts that physical desire is an obstacle to relations between men and women and may result in tragedy. The Kreutzer Sonata has been recognized as among the best examples of Tolstoy's art of storytelling.(Introduction by Dorlene Kaplan)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Leo Tolstoi

    Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.

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      Oh this was a man who was dominated by his passions his passions for sex his passions for a jealousy of this was the involvement the self and granddaughters meant the fluctuating between disgusting love somehow a conclusion that women were just sexual objects and all of their lives were to be done as such it was a difficult story well presented