Name: The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Rating: 3.728571428571429 (35 reviews)
ISBN: 9780140449600

David McDuff

Irwin Paul Foote

Leo Tolstoy

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

The Kreutzer Sonata

This book talks about how the protagonist follows a philosophy which he himself hasnt followed in the past, and eventually gets trapped into the philosophy itself: 'There is no such thing as love and men and women only long for sexual affection.' These emotions end up consuming him causing mental illness and immense jealousy. The jealousy topped with the philosophy ends up ruining his mentality and results in irreversible change which he regrets later, while being a part of the same philosophy. My criticism for this book is that there were a good number of chapters that felt repeptitive and at some you certainly get annoyed. 

Some may like it for sure, however I really hope this book doesn't fall in the hands of an incel: they'd end up worshipping the protagonist.

Aarush Arora

This book talks about how the protagonist follows a philosophy which he himself hasnt followed in the past, and eventually gets trapped into the philosophy itself: 'There is no such thing as love and men and women only long for sexual affection.' These emotions end up consuming him causing mental illness and immense jealousy. The jealousy topped with the philosophy ends up ruining his mentality and results in irreversible change which he regrets later, while being a part of the same philosophy. My criticism for this book is that there were a good number of chapters that felt repeptitive and at some you certainly get annoyed. 

Some may like it for sure, however I really hope this book doesn't fall in the hands of an incel: they'd end up worshipping the protagonist.

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.

Bought a copy from an estate sale because I wanted to read the book that was so controversial that Teddy Roosevelt and the USPS banned it. The only way I can describe this is “absolutely unhinged,” but not in the way Tolstoy was aiming for. 

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

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