The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories (riverrun editions)

''How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy''s stories'' Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories This volume contains ''Family Happiness'', ''The Devil'' and ''The Kreutzer Sonata'', three of Tolstoy''s unhappy-marriage stories as well as ''Father Sergius'', a story of a loss of identity in ambitious pursuit of holy virtue and ''Master and Man''. A collection that looks at ambition in multiple forms, from romance to spirituality, and from youth to old age, the forces of life in these stories connect people through time, situation and space. Tolstoy''s antidotes to delusion, fear, jealousy, and even madness have a common ethical thread pulled through the fabric of very different narrative structures, themes, and genres, whether realist, didactic, or parabolic.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy Leo
• Assisted by: Aylmer Maude (Translation), Aylmer and Louise Maude (Translation), Louise Maude (Translation), Maude Aylmer (Translation), Maude Louise (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2022
• EAN: 9781529410532
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1053-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Series: riverrun editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Russia, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Eastern, Classic fiction: general and literary, HISTORY / Russia / General